28 Sep 2021; MEMO: Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi yesterday inaugurated the world's largest wastewater treatment plant.
The Egyptian presidency said in a statement that 20 billion Egyptian pounds ($1.14 billion) were spent on building and preparing the facility, adding that it has a production capacity of 5.6 million cubic metres a day.
Water from the Bahr Al-Baqar plant will be transferred to North Sinai and used to irrigate 476,000 feddans (494 acres) of land.
Spokesman of the Egyptian Presidency, Bassam Rady, said that this plant is one in a series of national projects to develop Sinai and optimise the use of water resources in the country.
The pipes used in the plant were manufactured by Egyptians in an effort to generate more jobs, Al Ahram newspaper reported.
