Egypt’s New Delta Agriculture Wastewater Treatment, Recycling and Reuse Plant has gained four Guinness World Records titles.
The records were set for: largest water treatment facility, spanning an area of more than 320,600 square metres; largest water treatment plant, at a capacity of 86.8 cubic metres per second; largest epoxy coating covering a building, at an area of 520,339 square metres; and largest sludge treatment plant with a capacity of 670.01 kilograms per second.
The New Delta Wastewater Treatment Plant (NDWTP) is located south of al-Hammam on the Egypt’s Mediterranean coast, some 130km southwest Alexandria. It treats agriculture wastewater for reuse in irrigation, industrial purposes, and to replenish groundwater reserves. It thus eliminates pollution from Lake Maryut and the Mediterranean coast in Alexandria, given that the agriculture waste is diverted from flowing into them and is made to flow into NDWTP instead. The plant provides irrigation for approximately 1.2 million acres of agricultural land west of the Nile Delta where sustainable, integrated agribusinesses and industries can flourish in self-sufficient communities.
The NDWTP is the largest of its kind in the world, and was developed by a joint venture of national companies: Metito, Orascom Construction, The Arab Contractors, and Hassan Allam Construction, under the mandate of the Ministry of Defence, Armed Forces Engineering Authority. It was built in line with President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi’s directives to make use of wastewater to help overcome the water scarcity challenge facing Egypt.
The event to hand the Guinness records awards and certificates to NDWTP was attended by Irrigation and Water Resources Minister Hany Swailem, President of the Armed Forces Engineering Authority Ahmed al-Azazi, and representatives from Guinness World Records and the companies that participated in implementing the project.
Watani International
17 June 2024