#bedouin
In the arid stretches of Sinai and Matrouh, Bedouin families have for generations survived on the edge of Egypt’s deserts by mastering the art of rainwater harvesting. In villages scattered across these regions, where the average annual rainfall is a scant eight billion cubic meters, and only 200-300 million are collected in areas such as Sinai and the north coast, winter storms bring hope. Families gather to channel precious runoff into underground cisterns, which are large containers that collect and…
