Take a look a sat photos showing the green belt of the Nile, then compare the tiny state of Isreal...and populations....102 million vs 8.6 million....Cairo alone has just over 20 million. Egyptions would have to scale up bigly.
Gonna need a bigger desalination plant and plenty of them to keep stuff green if upstream is dammed.
Good and fair point. But why not? If Israel can turn the desert into a garden so could Egypt. Egypt also has plenty of oil and gas to pay the energy costs of desalination (Israel now has big gas finds too). Of course, entirely different culture and history and political systems and internal pressures as well, so different priorities. But Egypt has 2 separate and vast coastlines. Israel does have access to the red sea too but only a very narrow lane. Egypt can draw from up and down its red sea coastline as well as from the Mediterranean.