Nile Fountain Returns to Work after 40 Years of Negligence   

The official account of the Arab Contractors Company published pictures of the re-operation of Nile River Fountain, after nearly 40 years of negligence.

The company published photos and a video of the fountain in its new shape.

Hany Youness, the media advisor to the Prime Minister commented on his Facebook account: “It has been out of service for 40 years and has become a luminous beacon ... Long live Egypt.”

The fountain was established in 1956 during the reign of the late President Gamal Abdel Nasser in the middle of the Nile, and the "Julius Burger" company for public works from-the then- West Germany was the one in charge of installing it under the supervision of the Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs, according to the pictures attached to the "Memory of Contemporary Egypt" website of the Library of Alexandria.

The fountain is located in the middle of the Nile near El Gezirah District in Cairo, and it consists of two floors: the first is 9 meters in diameter, and the water sprouts out from its center at a height of one hundred meters, surrounded by 16 electric searchlights under the water, and the water overflows on another floor from which 32 small fountains emerge, and with 32 searchlights Electrically under the water.

In the basement, there are 64 pipes from which the surplus comes out, in the form of a beautiful water curtain surrounding the body of the fountain. He was about to reach the "Sheraton El Gezirah" hotel.

Cairo governorate affirmed that the development and re-operation of the Nile River fountain will increase the attractiveness of the central Cairo area surrounding the fountain.