CAPMAS: Egypt’s Pure Water Production Rises by 9.9%

By: Mohamed Wadie, Norhan Mahmoud 

CAIRO, Apr. 2 (SEE)- Egypt’s Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) announced that the total quantity of pure water produced in 2017-2018 reached 10.8 billion cubic meters, compared to 9.8 billion cubic meters in 2016-2017, marking a 9.9% increase. 

The annual bulletin of drinking water and sanitation showed that most of 2017-2018’s output, exactly 9.7 billion cubic meters, was turned out by the 1101 stations girding on the Nile River’s surface water. 

“A total number of 44 desalination plants generated 0.05 billion cubics meters of pure water in 2017-2018.

“Conjointly, 1618 stations extracted 1.1 billion cubic meters of groundwater in 2017-2018.

The figures also highlighted an 8.6% increase in the water produced per capita. “In 2017-2018, the share reached 112.1 cubic meters, compared to 103.2 cubic meters in 2016-2017.” 

Water losses percentage fell from 30.1% in 2016-2017 to 29.7% in 2017-2018. 

Egypt’s water sector endures drastic difficulties embracing mismanagement, pollution as well as uneven distribution.