President El-Sisi inaugurates Egypt water treatment project

Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has officially inaugurated the Al-Mahsamma agricultural drainage treatment, recycling and reuse plant in the Ismailia governorate of Egypt

Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has officially inaugurated the Al-Mahsamma agricultural drainage treatment, recycling and reuse plant in the Ismailia governorate of Egypt.

The agricultural run-off project has a water treatment capacity of 1 million cubic metres a day, the largest such project of its type in the world.

The project was developed by a joint-venture of Metito Egypt and the local Hassan Allam Construction. The scope of the project includes the engineering, construction and operations and maintenance (O&M) for a period of five years.

The treatment plant will enable the irrigation of 70,000 acres of land in the Sinai as part of the government’s aim of creating sustainable urban communities and job opportunities in the area. The water is transferred to the plant from the Ismailia irrigation drainage canal, located west of the Suez canal from two individual pump stations which cross underneath the Suez canal into Srabium siphon.

The water is pumped through the plant’s pump station via eight vertical turbine type pumps, each with a pumping speed of 7,000 cubic metres an hour.