Egyptian delegation visits Iraq to study establishment of water treatment plant on Euphrates River – Egypt Today

Egyptian delegation visits Iraq to study establishment of water treatment plant on Euphrates River – Egypt Today

CAIRO – 20 June 2022: Egypt’s Irrigation Minister Mohamed Abdel Ati held a meeting with officials to discuss the outcomes of an Egyptian delegation visit to Iraq to study the establishment of a water treatment plant on the Euphrates River. According to a statement by the Ministry of Irrigation on Monday, a report was discussed during the meeting to establish a treatment plant in Iraq that is similar to Egypt’s Bahr El-Baqar wastewater treatment plant. The Iraqi plant will operate to purify and desalinate water at the Euphrates River to face the decrease in the river’s water in the three Iraqi governorates of Nasiriyah, Diwaniyah, and Basra, according to the ministry. The meeting gathered ministerial officials as well as representatives of Egypt’s leading global engineering and construction contractor Orascom and Mohamed Heikal, consultant for Bahr El-Baqar plant. Abdel Atil said he is keen to follow up the file of cooperation with Iraq in the field of water resources and irrigation in light of the memorandum of understanding signed between the two brotherly countries in this regard and the importance that the Iraqi side benefit from the Egyptian experience in the field of water reuse. Such technical visits reflect Egypt’s belief