Infrastructure Project for Irrigation Improvement in      The West Delta Region 

Project Objectives

The West Delta Project is a unique example of the national projects that achieve the economic and institutional reform plans, develop the services provided to the public, raise performance efficiency and promote conservation and rationalization of water as one of the vital natural source that faces huge risks and challenges.

 One of the key principles upon which the project is founded is that water is a public property of the state. The state grants the right to use it merely for agricultural purposes according to binding contractions that forbid disposing  or selling it to a third party. At the same time, the project allows full cost-recovery of the costs of construction, operation and maintenance and grants the private sector an opportunity to contribute to financing as well as operating this kind of projects in return for water delivery charges within an regulatory framework ensuring the implementation of the required criteria of efficiency, adhering to the technical specifications and financial conditions via precise legal frameworks binding all the partnership’s parties, i.e. the private sector, stakeholders and the state represented in the Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation.

  Project Components

The project comes as a component of the framework of the State’s plan for horizontal expansion and irrigation improvement projects relevant to the West Delta region. The plant includes three major components that are as follows:

  First Component

The first component aims to improve irrigation in Al-Nobariya area that suffers from a discharge shortage to meet the water requirements of present types of cultivation that became double the rates that had been determined when the canal was constructed. The area of this component covers nearly 500 thousand feddans.

  Second Component 

The Project’s second component targets the reclamation and cultivation of 170 new thousand feddans distributed along the sides of Wadi Al-Natroun- Al-Alamein (100 thousand feddans) and west of Al-Sadat Town (70 thousand feddans).

  Third Component 

The third component is the water conservation and irrigation rehabilitation project in a 255-feddans area situated at the sides of Cairo-Alexandria desert road between kilo 50 and kilo 90. The project will be executed in the form of a public-private partnership. For more detailed information about the Project’s third component, please click here.