Egypt inaugurates water plants in Sinai amid development plans
Egypt is advancing major projects and inaugurating water treatment plants to support development plans for the Sinai Peninsula.
CAIRO — Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi inaugurated Sept. 28 the Bahr el-Baqar wastewater treatment plant in Port Said governorate, in the northwest of the Sinai Peninsula.
With a daily production capacity of 5.6 million cubic meters, the plant was registered in the Guinness Book of Records as the world's largest agricultural wastewater treatment plant. It took two years to build the plant at a cost of 18 billion Egyptian pounds ($1.14 billion).
The plant includes seven bridges and six siphons, in addition to lift stations to transport water from the west to the east banks of the Bahr el-Baqar drain underneath the Suez Canal.
The plant will treat the water collected from the Bahr el-Baqar drain, to be distributed to northern Sinai.
