Lake Nasser anti-pollution endeavor resumes

The Environment Affairs Agency, in collaboration with a US institution, will resume a joint bid to safeguard lake Nasser against pollution after a three-year break.

The International Environment Agency will fund the scheme with a $5 million US dollars investment, while the Egyptian side will contribute LE 3.5 million. The project seeks also to protect fish resources.

Other eight wastewater treatment plants will be established to curb the river Nile Pollution. Salah Hafez, the executive head of the Environment Affairs Agency, said that the agency would not extend the grace period, granted for cement plants in the upper Egyptian provinces of, Menia, Beni Suif, Suez and Alexandria to adjust their status in compliance with the recent environment laws.