The Ministers of Irrigation and Education discuss ways to enhance joint cooperation in the field of raising students’ awareness of water issues
Dr. Hani Sweilem, Minister of Irrigation and Water Resources, met with; With Mohamed Abdel Latif, Minister of Education and Technical Education, to discuss ways to enhance cooperation between the two ministries in joint projects, most notably raising students’ awareness of water issues through curricula and school activities.
Abdel Latif pointed out the importance of spreading water awareness through educational activities, as cooperation is taking place with the Ministry of Irrigation in implementing the initiative to rationalize water consumption by holding awareness seminars for students across the country, in addition to implementing workshops for male and female students to spread the culture of rationalizing water consumption and preserving the green environment, as well as implementing student research competitions to rationalize water consumption, in addition to using specialists to implement awareness meetings for workers in the field of student activities to spread the culture of rationalizing consumption and renewable energy, as well as including the national and social awareness competition in the water rationalization program.
The Minister of Education added that a plan will be prepared to include water issues and how to preserve them in accordance with the curricula, and to activate the protocol concluded between the two ministries through activities in schools.
For his part, the Minister of Irrigation pointed out the importance of joint cooperation between the two ministries, stressing the provision of all forms of support to the Ministry of Education to educate school students On water issues and the importance of rationalizing and preserving it through curricula and various school activities, as one of the tools to correct any misconceptions among citizens about water in Egypt, and to increase their awareness of the size of the challenges facing the water sector in Egypt.
Suwailem stressed the importance of including water concepts in curricula to raise students’ awareness of water issues and to identify external and internal water challenges and the importance of the Nile River for the future of coming generations and Egyptian water security, and the extent of the efforts made by the Egyptian state to rationalize water use and improve its management process, and the role of the student and the family in preserving water.
The meeting witnessed a discussion of activating and updating the existing cooperation protocol between the Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation and the Ministry of Education to implement a competition to spread water awareness among school students at various levels and at the level of the Republic, so that the update includes developing the scientific content of the competition and the value of the prizes, so that the competition is within a scientific framework through scientific research, projects and innovations submitted by students in the field of water, to be in line with the future vision of the water sector in Egypt.
As The meeting reviewed proposals for cooperation between the two ministries by publishing joint awareness films between the two ministries, and organizing educational school trips to irrigation museums and irrigation facilities for the school stages whose curricula include topics related to the water file, in order to explain in real life, and implement activities related to the water file in all school stages.
