Parched Egypt struggles to contain water loss
In a country already suffering from severe water scarcity, official figures show that more than a quarter of clean water produced never makes it to consumers.
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Thick shrubbery crawling upwards from waist-deep water towards the 13th-century Al-Ashraf Khalil dome in the Egyptian capital's historic quarter. (AFP)
By NewVision Reporter
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CAIRO - At the foot of an 800-year-old Cairo mausoleum, weeds rise from a murky green pool -- a sign of massive loss of clean water that often goes to