1. Egypt By Trevor Kozak 8 th grader at Tamarac Middle School The Sphinx and Great Pyramid

2. Egypt

3. Background Egypt is the only member of the Middle East in Africa Egypt has a population of 8,835,225 people Egypt is 1,001,450 kilometers The Capital of Egypt is Cairo.

4. Cairo Egypt Now Future Goal

5. Government Egypt is a Republic The president is Mohammed Morsi He was elected in 2011 after former president Hosni Mubarak was forced out of office because of the revolution

6. Egypt Revolution The Egyptian Revolution occurred in 2011. Hosni Mubarak was acting like a dictator. Citizens of Egypt were not happy with the amount of power he was getting. People formed riots and destroyed federal property to force Mubarak out of office. Mubarak was even having someone rig the voting so he would win.

7. Hosni Mubarak (Former President) Mohammed Morsi (Current President)

8. Agriculture

9. WHAT IS HAPPENING IN EGYPT? Nile River Pollution Rice Straw Burning Air Pollution Garbage Pollution Endangered Animals

10. Nile River Pollution

11. Nile River Solutions Biological filters with chemical additives, and sand filters would fix water pollution in Egypt.

12. RICE STRAW BURNING Farmers burn rice straw as a quick way to get rid of it.

13. Rice Straw Burning Solutions Rice Straw could be used as mattress stuffing or animal feed instead of a pollutant

14. Air Pollution Smog clouds form because of pollution A permanent cloud of pollution is over Egypt

15. IDEA Project IDEA is a Canadian-Egyptian Consortium which has changed about 350 brick factories south of Cairo. They will use natural gas instead of oil to reduce CO2 and pollutants emitted by factories.

16. GARBAGE POLLUTION Streets of Egypt have garbage on them because there are no proper places to put it.

17. Garbage City Garbage City is the only place in Egypt where garbage is sorted and made into something else. Zabbaleens(Garbage Collectors) Go around cities and collect garbage to bring to garbage city.

18. Garbage City

19. QUESTIONS? Comments? Thank You!

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