The modernization of Mahalla Water treatment plant in Egypt has been inaugurated. The project includes the modernisation of the existing water treatment plant and increasing its capacity to about 40,000 cubic meters of water per day.
The project, which comes under the Improved Water and Sanitation Programme (IWSP 1) will benefit about 346,000 residents in the area around Mahalla, who will have access to clean and high-quality water.
Ambassadors, Stéphane Romatet of France and Cyrill Nunn of Germany, together with Head of the European Union Delegation to Egypt, Christian Berger, presided over the inauguration of the Old Mahalla Water Treatment Plant, near Tanta city.
According to a tripartite statement issued by the EU and Embassies of France and Germany in Cairo, the Egyptian authorities were represented by the Governor of Gharbia and Chairman of the Holding Company for Water and Wastewater who attended the event.
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The Improved Water and Wastewater Services Programme (IWSP 1) covers four governorates (Beheira, Gharbia, Sharkia, Damietta) in the Nile Delta region with a total estimated population of 16.3 million and will improve both, the water supply networks and treatment plants and the wastewater collection system and treatment.
Several financiers were involved in the project to modernise the existing infrastructure projects, and in establishing new ones to improve water services and water treatment for residents in the four governorates.
The water treatment plant project in Mahalla is being used as a model to be followed in terms of coordination between various European financiers. A total of US $348 million in funding has been jointly provided by the Agence Française de Développement (AFD), the European Union (EU), the European Investment Bank (EIB), and the German Development Bank (KfW). Also, additional funding has been provided by the Egyptian government.
