The relationship between levels of exposure to negative news to Egyptian water security issues on websites and the sense of collective danger among the Egyptian elite:

The study aimed to analyze the most prominent water security issues, and to identify the most important negative news that the websites have focused on related to these issues, and revealing the patterns and rates of exposure to this news, and the manifestations of collective danger to the public as a result of exposure to Egyptian water security issues, through a field study that relied on the approach Survey, by applying to a purposive sample of the Egyptian elite amounting to 170 respondents, and conducting in-depth interviews with experts and specialists in the fields of media and water security. He study concluded that the elite’s keenness to follow up on these issues permanently, and to be exposed to them more than once a day because they contain interactive tools through which the elite express their vision of these issues, and that the “Renaissance Dam issue” was at the forefront of the most prominent water security issues, and then “regional and international conflicts over gas. And oil, as these issues represented a great danger to the Egyptian society. The most prominent political and security risks were "Egypt's entry into regional and international conflicts due to the ambitions of some countries over the waters of the Nile River and the riches of the Mediterranean, the most prominent negative news was "Ethiopia's building of the Renaissance Dam without agreeing with Egypt and Sudan," while the most prominent effects of exposure to this news were "knowing the news related to water security issues, following up on experts' opinions, and apprehending the dangers arising from the developments of these issues, and realizing the existence of great risks related to water security." These issues are related to the positions of some countries and their powers, and to participate in raising the public’s awareness of these dangers, and urging them to optimize the use of water and energy, to reduce the repercussions of these crises. A correlation relationship between respondents' interaction with these implications and a feeling of collective danger, and between elite attitudes towards this news and a sense of collective danger.