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Egypt's Water Revolution: 9 Years of Progress

Tue, 03 Oct 2023 - 09:33 GMT

The subsequent report delves into crucial details regarding these groundbreaking initiatives:

Um al-Bared Dam: Latest bid to protect Central Sinai from torrential rains, reuse in agriculture

Sat, 30 Apr 2022 - 12:41 GMT

The Umm Al-Bared Dam is located in the village of Al-Tamd, with a length of 250 meters, a height of 7 meters, and a storage capacity of 3 million cubic meters of water.

Rainwater inundates tombs in Egypt’s Marsa Matrouh, remains of corpses float up

Sun, 21 Nov 2021 - 12:17 GMT

The cemetery would be restored and the remains will be re-shrouded and re-buried

Egypt allocates urgent shelters to residents affected by rainwater in Aswan

Thu, 18 Nov 2021 - 11:14 GMT

Prime Minister Moustafa Madbouli issued on Wednesday a decision prohibiting constructions near flood spillways.

Egyptian government allocates LE300M to rehabilitation of Alexandria‘s drainage system

Tue, 23 Feb 2021 - 11:04 GMT

El-Said affirmed the ministry’s keenness on achieving rapid steps to raise the efficiency of the sewage and drainage systems in Alexandria.

Warnings against cultivating crops on the islands of the Nile in Egypt due to high level of water

Sat, 12 Sep 2020 - 03:36 GMT

Due to an increase in Nile water level in Egypt, more than 70 feddans (one feddan equals 1.03 acres) in Egypt’s Delta were flooded five days ago.

Accumulated waste removed off roads in 6th of October City

Thu, 21 Nov 2019 - 01:24 GMT

The waste is collected from vacant areas in the northern area of the city, estimated at more than 5 million cubic meters.

Sinai dams retain 6 million cubic meters of rainwater in October

Thu, 31 Oct 2019 - 02:14 GMT

Benefits of rainwater floods boil down to feeding the aquafer of underground water in the peninsula and increasing the arable land, Sinai Governorate announced in a statement.

Sewers 'functioning,' but rainwater surpasses capacity: Sanitation Co.

Wed, 23 Oct 2019 - 11:13 GMT

All storm sewers “work well,” but the traffic crisis that occurred Tuesday night in eastern Cairo resulted from the large amount of rain that fell in such a short period of time, said the Holding Company for Drinking Water and Sanitation.

2019 Floodwater flowing into Egypt exceeds earlier years

Sun, 13 Oct 2019 - 12:26 GMT

The volume of floodwater flowing into Egypt in October exceeds those of earlier years, and the overall amount in 2019 is “promising,” the Ministry of Irrigation said Sunday

New dam to be constructed in Shalatin

Sat, 09 Dec 2017 - 11:35 GMT

Shalatin dam with a capacity of seven million m³ to be built, which will make it the largest in the Eastern desert.

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