Egypt's PM reviewed mechanisms for optimal use of agricultural wastewater

CAIRO - 17 October 2021: Prime Minister Moustafa Madbouli reviewed mechanisms for the optimal use of agricultural wastewater after treatment during a meeting late Saturday with Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation Mohamed Abdel Aati.

The premier underlined the importance of projects to be implemented by the state in the coming period to magnify water resources, also he referred to several projects in this concern.

For his part, Abdel Aati reviewed the projects being implemented by the ministry to serve this goal, citing the mega project of Bahr el Baqar, the largest wastewater treatment plant in the world.

The cost of the plant is LE20 billion, and its daily capacity is 5.6 million cubic meters to be used in the reclamation of 400 feddans (one feddan equals 4,500 square meters) in Sinai.

Bahr Al Baqar and other related projects, including roads, located on the western bank of the Suez Canal were implemented by 16 private companies, two national ones, and designed by a private consulting bureau.

Those plants garnered three titles from Guinness World Records, and they are the World’s Largest Water Treatment Plant; World’s Largest Sludge Plant; and, World’s Largest Ozone Generator. The attempts were put forward by Orascom Constructions and Arab Contractors.