A historic event: Nile water reaches Sinai

For the first time in history, the Nile water reached Sinai in Egypt after the Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak inaugurated yesterday the underground channel of El Salam offshoot which would transfer the River Nile water from the west to the east side of the Suez Canal to irrigate 400 thousand feddans in Northern Sinai.

The underground channel was established at a cost of L.E. 200 million. It consists of 4 tunnels, each 750 meters long to transfer the Nile water at 160 c million meters a second.

The total cost of the infrastructure projects of the El Salam offshoot is L.E. 5.7 billion. The works that were already implemented till now cost L.E. 850 million. The projects of developing the region of Northern Sinai aim to allow 2.2 million people to settle down till the year 2017, to set up 37 new housing areas, and to establish 5 model villages fully equipped with all services and utilities.