Egypt’s Irrigation Ministry overviews hundreds of joint water projects accomplished in fellow African states

  • Date: 28-Dec-2020
  • Source: Egypt Today
  • Sector:Oil & Gas
  • Country:Middle East
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Egypt’s Irrigation Ministry overviews hundreds of joint water projects accomplished in fellow African states

FILE - Minister of Irrigation and Water Resources Mohamed Abdel Aty







CAIRO – 28 December 2020: Minister of Irrigation and Water Resources Mohamed Abdel Aty held Sunday a meeting with the ministry's senior officials to overview the joint projects executed in African states over the past years.

 

With regard to rainwater harvesting dams, Egyptian companies build seven of those in Uganda. As for digging wells and establishing underground water treatment plants, the breakdown is 180 in Kenya, 75 in Uganda, 30 in Tanzanya, 10 in Sudan's Darfur, and six in South Sudan. In addition, a water elevation unit was set up in South Sudan in order to deliver the rivers' water to nearby residential areas.

 

The ministry contributed by conducting feasibility studies for some of those projects, and reviewing the design of certain dams. Furthermore, it cleaned a number of canals, introduced fisheries, reduced the size