Arab Finance: Egypt is planning to reach a production capacity of 8.8 million cubic meters per day of desalinated water by 2050 in 11 governorates as per the country’s strategy to meet the water desalination requirements, Deputy Minister of Housing for Infrastructure Affairs Sayed Ismail said as stated in an emailed release on May 29^th.

Ismail noted that within the first five years of the strategy, the country aims to reach a capacity of 3.3 million cubic meters of desalinated water per day, to be raised to 5.9 million cubic meters.

He added that the country is targeting to increase the capacity of the Tenth of Ramadan station from 600,000 cubic meters per day to 1.2 million cubic meters per day, given that the station serves nearby regions and some parts of the New Administrative Capital.

This came during the eighth edition of Builders of Egypt Forum under the title: Egypt’s Propitious Momentum towards Construction Sector Exportation Regionally.

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