The Great Wastewater Initiative


(An Official Call for Sustainable Obedience)


Cairo — Urgent:

Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly has urged the Egyptian people to increase their production of wastewater and to preserve every single drop of it, in anticipation of the expected water shortage following the construction of the Ethiopian Renaissance Dam.


He explained that conserving and reusing wastewater will ensure that the remaining clean Nile water can be reserved for essential needs such as drinking and bathing — before being redirected, after treatment and desalination, to golf courses, swimming pools, artificial lakes, luxury fountains, and dancing-water displays in the New Administrative Capital and other modern cities.


The Prime Minister also highlighted the government’s ambitious plans to employ recycled wastewater in Egypt’s upcoming Artificial Rain Project 2030, a strategic national initiative personally supervised by President El-Sisi.

 Dr. Madbouly affirmed that wastewater is a renewable resource that must be exploited in the best possible way.



🔍 Analytical Commentary for the International Reader


1. Satirical Premise and Bureaucratic Irony


The text parodies the style of an official government communiqué — polite, optimistic, and absurdly misplaced. By calling citizens to “increase their production of wastewater,” the piece flips environmental rhetoric into bureaucratic lunacy. It mocks how regimes adopt the language of sustainability to rationalize social and ecological collapse.


2. The Inversion of Priorities


The satire thrives on inversion: public sacrifice for elite comfort. The purest Nile water is not for citizens’ thirst, but for “golf courses and dancing fountains.” The state’s logic of modernization becomes an ecological farce — luxury framed as progress, waste disguised as national achievement.


3. Water as Political Allegory


In a country where the Nile is sacred, turning wastewater into a symbol of national duty is a profound act of satirical desecration. Water here represents life and dignity; its “recycling” becomes a metaphor for how the state recycles obedience — extracting even the citizens’ waste for elite spectacle.


4. Technocratic Theology


The invocation of “President El-Sisi’s personal supervision” completes the absurd theology of modern bureaucracy. It transforms technocracy into worship: every absurd project acquires divine legitimacy once connected to the Leader’s “interest.” This echoes Orwellian Newspeak — where irrationality is elevated to patriotic faith.


5. “Artificial Rain 2030” — The Utopia of Control


The planned “Artificial Rain Project” symbolizes the fantasy of total control: even nature will obey presidential orders. It lampoons the culture of “visionary projects” that promise miracles while basic infrastructure decays. Rain itself, the ultimate natural freedom, becomes a managed resource — rationed, branded, and proudly artificial.


6. Rhetoric of Environmental Patriotism


By urging citizens to “save every drop” of sewage, the text exposes how propaganda weaponizes environmental language. Patriotism is redefined as compliance in absurdity — not to plant trees or save rivers, but to produce more filth efficiently. It’s a moral economy of contamination disguised as civic virtue.


7. Moral Texture and Satirical Legacy


For the international reader, this piece stands in the tradition of Swift’s “A Modest Proposal” — where reason and monstrosity merge in bureaucratic tone. The humor is dry, almost administrative, which intensifies the horror: the reader laughs at the press release, then realizes it reads like policy.

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