One billion pounds for upgrading Sinai water

The construction department in Sinai has finished a number of water projects at a cost of LE 1.75 billion.

The general chairman of the Sinai construction department, Mahmoud Afifi, said in press statements today that water lines were established from Qantara east of Rafah on the eastern borders of Egypt with Israel, to feed the cities, villages and the governorate's assembling with waters.

Moreover, two other lines were finished from Qantara to El-Arish and from Ismalia to El-Hassana plain in the middle of the Sinai, at a total length of 342 km, costing LE 850 million.