EMWIS National Information Seminar in Egypt, 10 February 2007
EMWIS National Focal Point in Egypt, the Ministry of Water Resources and
Irrigation –MWRI-, organised, in Cairo last 10th February 2007, a national
workshop to launch EMWIS National website project in Egypt. Dr. Mahmoud Abu
Zeid, Minister of Water resources and Irrigation, opened the workshop
stressing the importance of sharing water information within and outside the
MWRI for the water stakeholders but also to use EMWIS to inform the general
public. H.E. Dr Abu Zeid who took part in the creation of EMWIS at the
Ministerial conference of Marseilles in 1996, foresees 2 main routes for
EMWIS in the future: i) the organisation of data-flows within the countries
(a priority of the Egyptian Water Master Plan) and ii) the exchange of
information and know-how between countries.
The development of the Egyptian EMWIS website is supported by the Italian
cooperation.
Photo: From left to right: representative from the Italian Ambassy and H. E. Dr. Mahmoud Abu Zeid, Ministerof Water Resources and Irrigation, Egypt.