Egyptian Prime Minister Moustafa Madbouli said that developing irrigation and drainage system helps find radical solutions to decade-long water problems in Siwa Oasis.
This came during his visit on Monday to Siwa Oasis to follow up on the implementation of service and development projects in Siwa Oasis as part of the second stage of a project on developing irrigation and drainage system in the Oasis.
The minister was accompanied by Agriculture and Irrigation Minister Sayyed el Quseir, Local Development Minister Hisham Amna, Water Resources and Irrigation Minister Hani Sweilem, in addition to Governor of Marsa Matrouh Khaled Shoaib, Director of the Military Engineers Department Walid Aref, Director of the Water Department at the Armed Forces Engineering Authority Tamer Zaher, and a number of officials.
The director of the Water Department at the Armed Forces Engineering Authority said that the project to develop the irrigation and drainage management system in Siwa Oasis came in line with President Abdel Fattah El Sisi’s directives to find a radical solution to the problem of agricultural drainage in Siwa Oasis, in a way that preserves the environmental balance.
Zaher further noted that the project consists of the “Antefir” lifting station, with a capacity of 60,000 m3/day
The project aims at redirecting the excess agricultural drainage water to Siwa drains that were pouring into the Siwa pond and transferring it to a 34-km-long open canal.
