Facts about Qattara depression project

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Facts about Qattara depression project

05 16, 2023

Located near the city of El Alamein, the North West Coast and the Qattara Depression are two of the areas most capable of absorbing population growth, as they are about 500 kilometers long, on a coastal front, 280 kilometers deep, and the Qattara Depression is the second deepest depression in the Middle East.

The Qattara depression extends from east to west, with its eastern end approaching the Mediterranean Sea at Alamein, and its area is about 20,000 square kilometers, about 298 kilometers long and 80 kilometers wide at its widest area, and its maximum drop below sea level is 134 meters, and the depression starts from south of Alamein at a distance of about 31 kilometers.

The project consists of creating a 75-kilometer-long waterway in which Mediterranean water rushes into a massive depression that reaches a depth of 134 meters below sea level, creating an artificial lake of more than 1,000 kilometers. This creates an artificial lake with an area of more than 12,000 kilometers. From the rush of water, cheap electricity can be generated up to 2,500 kilowatt hours per year, saving billions of pounds. The rain from the evaporation is used to grow millions of acres of crops that need water to grow.

The lake will also produce huge quantities of salt and fish. It will also create a port that will relieve pressure on the port of Alexandria. In addition to tourism projects It will also create a port to relieve the pressure on the port of Alexandria, as well as tourism projects and create job opportunities for millions of Egyptians coming from the narrow Nile Valley.

The most prominent benefits of the project are the generation of clean electricity, which reaches 2,500 kilowatt-hours, equivalent to 210,000 megawatts per year, with a production rate 100 times higher than the High Dam, which produces only 2,100 megawatts, saving billions of dollars to the Egyptian treasury annually and increasing the opportunities for industrial investment in the region, and the amount of electricity generated can be increased by making the canal steeper to the south, but this would increase the project costs.

The Qattara Depression Project aims to open one or more canals connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the edge of the depression, and to establish a turbine station or stations to exploit the fall of water to the depression to generate economic electrical energy, which does not result in damage or pollution of the environment, and the evaporated water or part of it can be condensed, as well as desalination of this water and its use in organized agriculture, and the establishment of an integrated community in one-fifth of Egypt's area.

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The Qattara Depression project is one of the projects listed in the Ministry of Electricity and Energy's plan as a project studied by the authority for the implementation of hydroelectric projects with an installed capacity of 1,800 megawatts. However, the project was not included in any five-year plan for power plant projects for the period from fiscal 2002-2003 to fiscal 2021-2022 (four five-year plans), although, according to many experts, it is a good model for future projects with enormous economic benefits in terms of energy supply and the creation of new urban and civil societies.

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