Proposed Policies for Planning and Managing Water Resources in Egypt in Light of Expected Climate Changes

Abstract

Climate change is one of the most serious challenges facing the world and a fundamental challenge to the sustainable development process. Climate change has a tremendous impact on water in Egypt, which is manifested in many pressures on food and water supply, and a direct impact on the economy, politics and society, North Africa has become one of the region's most in need of food preservation with limited water supplies, hence the idea of research working on Achieving the goal to develop policies for planning and managing water resources to ensure Egypt’s resistance to the effects of climate change and exposure to water shortage problems, using the Delphi method, which is an organized way to collect the opinions of a selected group of experts and specialists in the field of planning and management of water resources. By conducting a questionnaire to collect the opinions of experts to analyze the water situation The current situation in Egypt and an analysis of the reasons for the quantitative and qualitative deficit in water resources, including it may contribute to the development of a proposal for policies for planning and managing water resources in light of climate changes and measuring the extent of its application in Egypt.