The head of the Irrigation Department confirms that he is continuing to remove all infringements on the Nile
Engineer Mohamed El-Saadi, head of the irrigation department, said that the Ministry of Irrigation is removing the violations on the waterways in general and on the Nile River in particular. It is the channel that holds 97% of the water resources in Egypt. He pointed out that the responsibility of the Nile Protection Sector starts from behind the Aswan reservoir. Downstream with lengths of 1400 km.
Al-Saadi said in statements to "Seventh Day" that the role of the sector is to preserve the aspects of the Nile River and maximize the benefit of these aspects, where it faces great challenges, because the encroachments are accompanied by a bottleneck of the Nile River, which impedes the necessary water resources, and forces us to remove those In the summer period, the maximum needs season. When we started the national campaign to save the Nile on January 5, 2015, there were 50,000 and 399 cases, 52 thousand and 53 violations were added, and 45,904 cases have already been removed. And nested.
Al-Saadi pointed out that the sector is freeing the line of "forbidden area" of the Nile, with a width of 30 meters along the Nile, and looking at the previous licenses granted to the installations, easy to dismantle and install, not to renew them, Of the erosion and the old buildings so that work is done.
Al-Saadi stressed that after the new irrigation law, the violators will be deterred, saying that we are going to implement all the abductions on all the aggressors, and in the face of extortion we must follow the long-term policy and choose the right time because everyone is before the law.
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