Thursday 08/May/2025 – 11:40 AM
Dr. Mustafa Madbouly, Prime Minister and his companions, visited, as part of his tour today in Gharbia Governorate, the new navigational candidate water station in Tanta, in the presence of members of the House of Representatives and the Senate for Gharbia Governorate.
The Prime Minister inspects the new navigational candidate water station in Tanta
During the tour, Madbouly stressed that the government is working to improve drinking water and sanitation services in all villages of the governorates of the Republic, with the aim of upgrading the quality and level of services provided to citizens, especially rural villages and disadvantaged areas, within the framework of Egypt’s Vision 2030 to achieve the sustainable development goals.
Engineer Mamdouh Raslan, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Holding Company for Drinking Water and Sewerage, stressed that the new navigational candidate water station in Tanta is one of the most important vital projects in the drinking water sector at the governorate level, due to the pure and safe drinking water it provides for hundreds of thousands of citizens inside the city of Tanta and a number of villages of the center and dependencies.
He explained that the station was established on a total area of about 68,205 square meters, equivalent to 16 acres and 6 carats, and is currently serving nearly 900 thousand people from the residents of the first Tanta neighborhood and a large number of villages affiliated with the Tanta Center.
Meanwhile, Dr. Mustafa Madbouly held a dialogue with members of the House of Representatives and the Senate for Gharbia Governorate about the percentage of sewage coverage in the governorate, where officials stated that it reached 76%, and the Prime Minister praised this percentage, indicating in this regard, that during his assumption of the responsibility of the Ministry of Housing in 2014, the coverage rate was about 30% in the governorate, adding that with the completion of decent life projects in the governorate, the coverage will reach a percentage 100%.
The Prime Minister explained, during his speech in this regard, that the station still has capabilities that allow the connection of other villages affiliated because its capacity is greater than the capacity that the station currently operates, and directed that a number of neighboring villages to this station instead of starting new stations.
During the components of the station, the Prime Minister and his companions listened to a detailed explanation from the engineer/ Moataz Riad Hassan, Head of the Employment and Maintenance Sector in the West Gharbia Governorate sector, who explained that the station was implemented in two main phases, where the first stage included the establishment of a design card with a design card of 1400 liters/ s, at a total cost of 411 million pounds, and the service was actually entered in 2011, while the second stage came to enhance the station’s capacity To meet the expansion of the service, by adding a new design capacity of 600 liters/second, at a cost of 120 million pounds, and this stage entered the service in 2020, bringing the total design energy of the station to 2000 liters/second, equivalent to 172,800 cubic meters per day.
During the inspection of the pipeline, Eng. Moataz Riad Hassan indicated that the station is currently operating with an actual capacity of 120 thousand cubic meters per day, and serves the first district of Tanta, in addition to 24 villages affiliated with the Tanta Center, through a 82 -km distribution network, covering large areas that include the endowment facility, Fisha Selim, Kafr El -Sahel, Kafr Al -Shurafa, Karaki, Shouni, Kafr, Kafr Al -Jabali, Kafr El -Sheikh Salim, Ezbet Farraj, Kafr Khadr, Kafr Masoud, Janzour facility, the new facility, Sanadid, Dafra, Nafia, Kafr Abu Dawood, Mit Hobeish Al -Qibliya, Khursit, Kafr Al -Hama, Al -Kafour Al -Qibliya, Sigger, Al -Ajizi, Stout, Wisdom, Widat, and the recruitment area, adding that the station’s networks reach the length It is more than 8105 km, which reflects the huge infrastructure on which the operational system of the new navigational candidate station depends.
He explained that the station also includes a system of integrated factories that includes a chemical and other microbiological laboratory, provided with the latest modern devices and technologies, in order to ensure continuous control of the quality of the water produced and its conformity to the approved health and environmental standards, pointing out that these laboratories contribute to the implementation of periodic programs for examination and analysis, in a way that guarantees the water safest and its safety before pumping them into networks Distribution.
During the inspection of the technical components of the station and the Al -Morshehat building, the Prime Minister and his companions briefed on the modern equipment that the station was provided to ensure the sustainability of the service and raise its operational efficiency. The station includes (6) hacker pumps, the design capacity of one puppet is about (550) liters per second, in addition to (12) puppets filled with a drainage capacity (290) liters per second for the pump, as well as (6) circular and (22) filtering units, combined to achieve high efficiency in water production.
It is noteworthy that the station obtained a Sustainable Technical Management Certificate (TSM) that is granted to stations that adhere to the highest standards of operation, maintenance and professional safety, as well as a certificate of safety and safest water, which is an international certificate that is one of the most important indicators of commitment to ensure the quality of the water produced and its compatibility with health and environmental standards, which reflects the extent of the state’s commitment to applying the highest levels of technical efficiency in operating infrastructure projects Service.
