People And Water In Egypt

People and Water in Egypt is an edited volume that takes an interdisciplinary approach to critically examine contemporary water issues in Egypt. The chapters offer a range of theoretical, empirical, and anthropological contributions covering water distribution within rural and urban areas, transboundary water politics, and issues around drinking water and irrigation. As the case studies will demonstrate, water infrastructures reveal so much about historical power dynamics across time and space. Water is simultaneously natural, chemical, geopolitical, social, and cultural. We hope that after finishing this book, the reader will have a better understanding of how water issues in Egypt are anything but straightforward.