In continuing efforts to fulfill its growing water needs, Egypt is set to build the largest seawater desalination plant in the world in the Red Sea city of Ain Sokha, head of the Egyptian Armed Forces Engineering Authority, Kamal El Wazir, said earlier this week. Upon completion, the plant will be able to purify 164,000 cubic meters of seawater per day, and will provide water to development projects in the Suez Canal Economic Zone, Wazir said in a phone interview on private TV channel ONTV. Currently in the process of being built, the plant will “benefit the economic zone located northwest of Suez Gulf, as well as supporting three other giant desalination plants located in al-Galala, east of Port Said Governorate and the New El Alamein city,” he explained. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Housing’s facilities advisor Sayed Ismail told ONTV that these other three desalination plants are currently under construction, each with a production capacity of 150,000 cubic meters per day. Ismail went on to say that the country’s overall water desalination capacity at present stands at 700,000 cubic meters per day, representing a tenfold increase in the past two years….
Egypt is Building World’s Largest Seawater Desalination Plant
November 17, 2017
