Mastroua — COP27 host hopes low-cost sand dikes can help hold back the Mediterranean Sea and protect the homes and incomes of people in the country’s breadbasket
The flooding had become inevitable. Every winter, amid heavy rains and storms, the Mediterranean Sea would rise and spill over into fisherman Aziz Lasheen’s low-lying village in Egypt’s northern governorate of Kafr El-Sheikh.
As water poured into the village of Mastroua it would…
