130218_Luxor-Egypt SECAP Final

This should be established as early as possible and would require a budget of about 50.000 € / year.
Educational and awareness raising campaigns should be developed to inform people about health
impacts of heat waves, floods, vector borne diseases, etc., and educate residents on the ways to
protect their health and prevent infection or disease outbreaks.
This should be launched as early as possible and would require a budget of about 30.000 € / year.
Technical measures
Mitigate risk of disease outbreak through appropriate maintenance of the city’s cleanliness, as well
as regular quality control of sewage and drainage systems. Indeed sewage, waste dumps and dormant
waters are reservoirs for serious diseases. Unless the City services fix these components, health risks
will remains high in the city. The first step of this technical programme will be the mapping of hot spots
for the development of communicable and vector borne diseases in order to design the most
appropriate remediation plan.
Improving water quality control is also necessary as water availability is essential. First, to cover the
basic needs of people particularly during periods of heat waves. Secondly, because it can be a vehicle
for spreading diseases if quality control is not sufficient. Systems are already in place and need to be
improved. Such improvement could be implemented such as the water delivery system upgrading
proposed to reduce energy consumption in this sector (refer to Section III, part 4.1.4 / p.37).
7.2. Infrastructure management
Current infrastructures (roads, bridges, dock sides) have not been design considering the risk
generated by dangerous climate change. It is time now to implement the appropriate measures to
monitor the occurrence of possible problems and design appropriate remediation action.
Strategic actions
Water and Waste Water management plan is under design as part of this SECAP (refer to Section III,
part 4.1.4 / p.37). This plan is must to ensure proper management of water flux particularly in the case
of heavy rains that could overpass absorption capacities of the current system. This plan also needs to
consider artificialized areas that will speed up water run-off.
The Nile River banks already received a protection action against erosion with some parts receiving
cement to clad some selected areas.
Improve infrastructure monitoring, particularly for bridges and docksides to anticipate any problems
that would undermine their resistance to high waters and floods. The adequate process should be set
up to ensure that any problem identified will result in an immediate remediation process. This also
means designing new specifications for bridges and docksides to match the maximum expected flow
during extreme events.
Modelling predicted demand and supply in electricity to adapt production capacities to actual
requirements. Heat waves will increase the demand as well as degrading performance of solar PV. It is
then key to develop models that will ensure a perfect match between demand and supply to avoid
blackout when people are in particular need of electricity.
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