Egypt Builds Artificial River in Western Desert to Irrigate New Delta

Since the inauguration of a number of wastewater treatment plants and irrigation networks across Egypt, the government promptly began implementing New Delta which is a large-scale national project that aims to improve the country's ability to cope with its rapidly growing population.

The mega national project has been adopted and introduced by President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi as he ordered the government to cultivate about 1 million feddans west of the Nile Delta and plant the most strategic crops as well in these new areas in a bid to help Egypt’s agriculture system with tons of wheat, maize, vegetables, and fruits crops.

According to the Vice President of the General Authority for Construction Projects Ahmed Abdl-Aziz, the cultivation of an area of 200.000 feddans has been completed in New Delta by using the available groundwater, and the cultivated area is expected to reach 350.000 feddans by the beginning of 2022 with the use of 1.600 developed pivot irrigation devices. 

One of the main axis of the project is the Hamam water plant, a giant wastewater treatment plant which is being built with a daily capacity of 7.5 million cubic meters, to reclaim and irrigate lands in the new project, spanning over 2.2 million feddans (one feddan equals 4,500 square meters)

In addition to this, the Dabaa Pumping Station in the Western Desert will be the centerpiece of the project and will be inaugurated in 2022.

It's expected that Dabaa Pumping Station will pump pure water from natural water resources in North Coast to be transported by way of a canal through the valley to serve transforming range of feddans of desert into agricultural land.

Like Libyans, the Egyptians also are building an artificial river in the middle of the desert, to provide more green areas and to go with the New Delta farms, which involves hundreds of workers and farmers.

It's worth mentioning that the ambitious project which is a part of an initiative presided over by Egypt's government aims to expand and maximize the arable land in Western Desert.