Geographic Area:

Entire Egypt

Area of Development:

Public infrastructure and basic services

Sector:

Water

Executive body:

DGCS

Institutional counterpart:

University of Alexandria

Other funding parties:

-

Beneficiaries:

Communities of arid areas

Period of implementation:

2003 - 2006

Amount and nature of the funds:

843,000 € grant through the debt swap

Type of intervention:

Technical assistance, capacity building, training and construction of civil works

Objective:

Supply of new water resources in arid areas

Description of the project:

The project deals with the problem of the lack of water in the arid zones through technical/scientific research, proposing the creation of potable water resources utilizing the desalination techniques of salty water.