The Egyptian authorities is constructing a large water treatment plant on the outskirts of Cairo to assist deal with the nation’s ingesting water scarcity.
In a statement posted Aug. 5, Ahmed Rashid, governor of the Giza governorate the place the plant will likely be positioned, stated the Dahab Island water plant will likely be totally operational after the completion of path assessments and may have a ultimate manufacturing capability of 160,000 cubic meters per day. In the course of the newest trial assessments, the plant was run at a manufacturing capability of 80,000 cubic meters per day, he added.
Rashid stated the operation of the plant in additional trial phases will improve water companies and deal with low water strain and cuts in some areas of Giza that have excessive temperatures.
The primary part was accomplished again in 2019, stated Might Salah, govt director of the Dahab Island water plant growth undertaking. The undertaking, supervised by the manager authority for water and sanitation tasks within the Ministry of Housing, is predicted to be accomplished and formally inaugurated by July 2022, Salah added.
She stated the plant will function with a complete capability of 160,000 cubic meters per day and purify water utilizing the fashionable DynaSand expertise, which filters water via sand. “The land space required for the operation of the plant is offered, in addition to the electrical energy wanted for operation,” she stated.
Salah stated the previous, current plant has a capability of 560,000 cubic meters per day, so mixed with the brand new one, “Dahab Island may have a complete day by day manufacturing capability of over 700,000 cubic meters.”
Salah stated the estimated price of the Dahab Island water plant growth undertaking is about 640 million Egyptian kilos ($41 million). The primary part that began in 2019 was accomplished, and expansions are being carried out for the second part with a purpose to obtain the utmost attainable manufacturing.
“This undertaking is all of the extra crucial given Egypt’s rising inhabitants and the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) disaster. We had been instructed to implement nationwide tasks that assist resolve water issues in some areas of the Giza governorate,” Salah added.
Egypt and Ethiopia have been at odds over the latter’s building of a multibillion-dollar hydroelectric dam on a important tributary of the Nile River, which Cairo fears will threaten its water provide.
She predicted Egyptians “will likely be seeing extra tasks to assist the ingesting water and sewage networks and deal with issues — together with low strain impacting ingesting water provide traces and sewage overflows.”
Egypt has recently established extra water remedy crops amid the stalled GERD disaster.
Sayed Ismail, deputy minister of housing for infrastructure affairs, stated there are greater than 480 water remedy crops throughout Egypt, together with superior secondary and tertiary remedy crops. He informed Al-Monitor the ministry has been implementing a three-year plan aimed toward enhancing the water provide state of affairs in Egypt and thus preserving residents’ well being and high quality of life.
He added, “The start was in Higher Egypt with a program that included 60 sewage remedy crops for a complete capability of 1.4 million cubic meters per day. In 2014, Egypt had round 300 remedy crops, and now now we have reached 480. One-hundred and eighty new services had been carried out and operated, together with 60 crops in Higher Egypt aimed to keep up the standard of the Nile River water and the standard of waterways and agriculture.”
Ismail stated 150 new services are at present being constructed within the different governorates of the Nile Delta at a price of 31 billion Egyptian kilos ($1.97 billion), with a complete capability of 5 million cubic meters per day.
He defined that previously, the federal government’s focus was on the secure disposal of wastewater. Now, he stated, there’s a new idea targeted on the secure reuse of water. “Handled wastewater is used straight in agriculture [for irrigating crops], in addition to not directly by being added to the water system of canals and ducts” which might be used to water fields, he elaborated.
Ismail indicated that the water generated by the remedy crops isn’t used for ingesting regardless of its purity and high quality, and 96% of wastewater is handled in city areas, whereas the determine stands round 38% in rural areas and villages. He praised the Hayat Karima (Respectable Life) initiative President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi launched in 2019 to realize sustainable growth objectives in rural Egypt inside three years.
Egyptian Prime Minister Mustafa Madbouly introduced in October 2019 that the federal government is implementing a plan that features a set of tasks to fight water scarcity by 2037. In a speech earlier than the Egyptian parliament, Madbouly stated the plan was devised by high consultants within the administration of water assets, bearing in mind the inhabitants improve and the folks’s water wants.
Madbouly stated the plan prices 900 billion Egyptian kilos ($57.19 billion) and features a transition to trendy irrigation in agriculture, enhancing use of canals and drains, wastewater remedy, and the growth of seawater or groundwater desalination crops.
