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Habi Center for Environmental Rights continues to engage the World Bank and the Egyptian government on the West Delta project. Egyptian CSOs have been urging the Bank to consider an alternative irrigation project which would help poor farmers as well.
In March 2010, Habi Center for Environmental Rights, an Egyptian civil society organization, sent two letters to the World Bank and Egyptian Ministry of Water Resources urging them to consider alternatives to the currently proposed West Delta irrigation project, which the Bank is co-funding.
In the letters, Habi Center questions the environmental sustainability of this project given the climate challenges that are and will be faced in Egypt, as well as the beneficiaries of this project should it be carried through. Later that month, both the World Bank and ministry responded to the letters.
Read the correspondence (in Arabic)
Habi Center letter to World Bank, March 2010 (PDF, 256KB)World Bank response to Habi Center 3/16/2010 (PDF, 137KB)
Habi Center letter to Egyptian Ministry of Water Resources 3/7/2010 (PDF, 414KB)
Ministry of Water Resources response to Habi Center, March 2010 (PDF, 378KB)