Arriving in Egypt two months ago, I was shocked to see the state that the country has fallen in. I had previously written about ‘Egypt Falling Apart‘ but I had not seen it all first hand. Despite my already-low expectations, I was shocked to see the deterioration that Egypt has faced in the past three years: Garbage piles on every street corner, excruciating traffic conditions, lack of care towards our national treasures, and plenty of other distressing issues.
These are issues that continue to be ignored by the people, and passively-accepted by the population. Unfortunately, these issues should not be ignored by the population as they threaten every corner of Egyptian life and society. In this article I will tackle the issue of pollution and tackle the issue of the Nile being used as a landfill. However, the coming articles will look at several other problems – Traffic, Sexual Harassment, and the illegal construction of buildings – that continue to plague Egypt and require urgent attention.
Pollution, and the Nile turning into a refuse dump for dead animals and garbage
Click here to skip and see the shocking lack of respect for the Nile River.
As the plane was landing in Cairo, I opened the side-window hoping to see the beautiful Egypt down below. This is what I first saw:
I had read that living in Cairo is the same as smoking a pack of cigarettes a day,
