Egypt constructs artificial river with LE 160 billion parallel to Nile River
Egypt is digging through the desert to create the largest artificial river in the northwest of the country, next to the Dabaa nuclear power plant, as part of its ‘New Delta’ project.
Professor of Water Resources and Irrigation, Abbas Sharaky, told RT that the agricultural activity in Egypt in recent years now extends to implement several major national projects, including a project to cultivate 1.5 million acres on non-renewable groundwater at 80 percent – most of which is in the Western Desert.
He added that the second project is the New Delta, west of Alexandria, to cultivate 2.2 million acres, depending on surface water from the Rashid branch of the Nile River, and agricultural drainage water after being treated through the artificial river, which will transfer water from al-Hammam plant, which is the largest treatment plant in the world, and part of the groundwater.
Sharaky continued: “The artificial river project is one of the most important water projects in recent years in terms of construction engineering and economic importance. It is a giant engineering work consisting of three channels that are constructed in different conditions from the rest of the irrigation channels in Egypt, as it transports water to desert areas that are more than 100 meters above the Nile River level.”