Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation Hossam Al Din Maghazi launched a national campaign Monday to stop infringements on the Nile waterways and remove contaminants that increased tremendously during the past three years. Maghazi initiated a supreme committee to develop laws and regulations to control irrigation facilities and drainage materials. Violations have gone up to 150,000 cases, 60% of which were removed, whether bridges, houses, residential buildings, cafeterias, restaurants on both sides of the River, according to the minister. New legislations will have more penalties on violators, raising the value of fines about twenty-folds from their current value. One of the proposed amendments is to raise fines from EGP 30 to 10,000, as well as imprisonment for no less than a year. Projected new laws will be extremely severe to guarantee punishment of violators and trespassers, and decisively confront all forms of pollutions after January 2011 revolution, said Maghazi.