Egypt's World Heritage Sites and residential neighborhoods are under threat from a two-fold problem, government incompetence and sea level rise caused by climate change.
This photo story takes a look at the effects of sea level rise and neglect on many of Egypt's oldest sites and heaviest built up areas along it's northern coast.
Story featured in Take Part:
http://www.takepart.com/feature/2016/02/26/sea-level-rise-alexandria
This photo story takes a look at the effects of sea level rise and neglect on many of Egypt's oldest sites and heaviest built up areas along it's northern coast.
Story featured in Take Part:
http://www.takepart.com/feature/2016/02/26/sea-level-rise-alexandria
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![Boatmakers on the shore in front of the Anfoushy district of Alexandria]()
Boatmakers on the shore in front of the Anfoushy district of Alexandria. The salt battered buildings along the coast show structural damage and some buildings have cracks in their foundations. Building collapses occur frequently in Alexandria.
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![AbuKir, outside of Alexandria, where residential buildings are built within meters of each other immediately on the coastline.]()
AbuKir, outside of Alexandria, where residential buildings are built within meters of each other immediately on the coastline.
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![A shephard tends to his flock of sheep on the ruins of St Mena's Monastery, St Mena's monstary is under threat from rising ground water]()
A shepherd tends to his flock of sheep on the ruins of St Mena's Monastery, St Mena's monstary, a World Heritage Site, is under threat from rising ground water.
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![A shephard tends to his flock of sheep on the ruins of St Mena's Monastery, St Mena's monstary is under threat from rising ground water]()
A shepherd tends to his flock of sheep on the ruins of St Mena's Monastery, St Mena's monstary is under threat from rising ground water.
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![A shephard tends to his flock of sheep on the ruins of St Mena's Monastery, St Mena's monstary is under threat from rising ground water]()
A shepherd tends to his flock of sheep on the ruins of St Mena's Monastery, St Mena's monstary is under threat from rising ground water.
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![Rising ground water forms a lake on the outskirts of St Mena's monastery. The church and city named after Saint Menas, which became a pilgramage site, was built in the early fifth century. In 2001, due the significant rise of the water table, by both clim]()
Rising ground water forms a lake on the outskirts of St Mena's monastery. In 2001, due the significant rise of the water table the site was considered under threat of vanishing.