“Giza Governorate Cuts Water Supply in Desert Areas Due to Monorail Project”

Posted by Maram Mohamed

Thursday, May 11, 2023 03:00 AM

Giza Governorate revealed that the Drinking Water and Sewerage Company in Giza cut off water for 8 hours to some desert areas of Kerdasa, October and Alexandria, from 10:00 pm tomorrow, Friday, corresponding to 5/12/2023, until 6:00 am, on Saturday, corresponding to 5/13/2023. .

The governorate attributed the reason for the cut to the works related to diversions of water lines that conflict with a project MonorailNoting that within the framework of the National Authority for Tunnels carrying out the work of the monorail project within the national projects, the water line of 400 mm in diameter passing inside the central security zone conflicts with the construction rules of the monorail, which requires changing the route of the line, in addition to laying pipes for the drinking water line with a diameter of 200 mm for buildings. government, on the Cairo-Alexandria Desert Road, which requires locking the water on the water line with a diameter of 800 mm on the Cairo-Alexandria Desert Road, kilo 5.10, to finish the connection work for the water line with a diameter of 200 mm referred to.

Giza Governorate indicated that the areas affected by the water outage are (Abu Rawash – Bani Majdoul – Kerdasa – kilo 26 Cairo-Alexandria Desert Road to kilo 28 Intermediate Chemicals – the entire Central Security Camp – Giza Security Directorate – compounds (Energ – Newgiza – Mount View – Joses). (West Hills – Al Mostakbal – Al Soleya) .

Major General Ahmed Rashid was appointed Governor of Giza The Drinking Water and Wastewater Company quickly completes the works related to diversions and laying of pipelines according to the specified schedule, to re-pump water in its natural form to the affected areas. .

Giza Governorate confirmed that the Drinking Water Company provided cars loaded with clean, potable water to move around the affected areas, noting that in case of emergency, the hotline 125 is called to meet their needs immediately.