The Research Center for International Development in Canada called for a coordinated regional initiative to manage the demand for water by asking the Egyptian government to "cancel the subsidy of water," pointing out that it is necessary to impose duties on the rich and businessmen who use large quantities of water in their work at the expense of those of low-income according to them. Hammo Alomrani said "You cannot equate between the amounts paid by a person living in or Imbaba or Manshiyat Nasser, supporting a family of 12 people, has no access to healthy water and what is paid by citizens living in Maadi, or Garden City."
He added to Al-Masry Al-Youm: "The majority of Egypt's water policies do not set priorities to low-income people. It always supports agricultural production and industries for large-scale farmers and businessmen without the expense of domestic needs, in the absence of legislation and laws governing the use of water." In the context of the study presented in a lecture on "the rationing and re-use of water in the Arab Region," Alomrani warned of the seriousness of dealing with the issue of water in the framework of "policy auction," without considering it as a problem of development with social and economic dimensions, which obstructs any breakthrough in the increase of water resources. Alomrani warned - in a symposium organized by the Desert Development Center, American University, on Saturday – of what he called "the gap in Egypt" between political men based on scientific research in the field of water research, and the control of politicians of decisions taken in the organization of water resources, instead of seeing it as an issue that has economic dimensions of development, social and environmental aspects in the long term.
He urged the Egyptian government to consider the water crisis as a government, not as "interest groups" - as he described - and wondered, why the Ministry of Irrigation and Water Resources only has the "water" file without the participation of other developmental authorities.
