In the year 2023, the Science and Technology Research Partnership for Sustainable Development (SATREPS) project titled “Securing the Sustainability of Oasis Societies Associated with Water and Land Use in the Western Desert” (Egypt) was approved for funding by the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). This research brings together the arts and sciences in a humanities-led approach to consider how “oasis knowledge” can be developed for sustainable groundwater use through collaboration between Japanese universities and research institutions and the National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences (NARSS) and New Valley University in Egypt. The Water-Scarce Society Research Center was established to serve as the project’s focal point in Japan.