Al-Masry Al-Youm's recent tour of Alexandria's Mariouteya canal district revealed that the salt produced therein--which accounts for 75 percent of Egypt's total salt production--had been contaminated with industrial waste, sewage and animal (...)
A health ministry committee took water samples from the home of Sheikh Hassan Haddad after Al-Masry Al-Youm ran an investigative feature in which Haddad indicated that his sons' kidney failure was due to water in Hawamdiya being polluted by a sugar (...)
Hassan Ahmed, a 70-year-old blacksmith, leans on his cane gazing at the Hawamdiya Sugar and Integrated Industries Company (SIIC), watching workers from one of six factories in the area wash huge metal containers with sulfuric acid. The acid, (...)
