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Image Credit: Terrazzo/Flickr Egypt’s Minister of Local Development, General Mahmoud Shaarawy, declared on 20 May that Egypt had reached water poverty based on the universal standards set by the United Nations (UN). Shaarawy’s statement came during his participation in the Water Security in Africa seminar during the Africities Summit in Kenya. According to the UN’s international water standards, if annual water supplies drop below 1,000 cubic meters per person, the country is experiencing water scarcity. Shaarawy shared that Egypt currently…