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A farmer pumps waste water on to his land as the Nile barely reaches it. The region is home to two-thirds of the country's growing population and provides 60% of its food supply
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Rashida resident Said Mohamed Shairwi fishes from a sea wall built recently to prevent coastal erosion. In some places Egypt's coasts are being eroded at a rate of 100 metres a year
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A woman carries a large pile of wheat for threshing during an intensive harvest. Many women in the area take on seasonal day work for $3 an hour during busy harvest periods
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Abdul Fattah ploughs his field in Kafr el-Sheikh, one of the worst-affected areas, before planting rice
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A young boy who works on the fishing boats on Lake Burullus
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A huge automated irrigation machine moves slowly through a potato plantation grown on reclaimed desert land outside Alexandria
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Labourers harvest rice from a paddy in Kafr el-Sheikh
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Mohammed, 13, walks home with his farming tools after working on his family's fields in the village of El-Haddadi
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Apartment buildings alongside the Damietta branch of the Nile, where the resort Ras el-Bar lies. Once a popular holiday destination, the holiday homes are now deserted
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Polluted water from agricultural drainage and sewage is pumped into a canal leading out into the Mediterranean near Rashida
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A girl watches over water buffalo grazing in her family's field
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Salt-encrusted soil on a potato plantation near El-Haddadi village provides evidence of the problems of sea encroachment
