Governor puts four Red Sea water plants at more than EGP 6 billion
The projects cover Ras Ghareb, Safaga, El Quseir and Marsa Alam, with combined capacity put at about 85,000 cubic metres a day. The governor gave no plant-specific opening dates.
8 November 2026
Four water desalination and treatment plants in Ras Ghareb, Safaga, El Quseir and Marsa Alam will cost more than EGP 6 billion, Red Sea governor Walid Al-Barqi said in an interview with Al-Dostor. He put their combined capacity at about 85,000 cubic metres a day.
The governor said work had already started at sites including El Quseir, Safaga and Ras Ghareb. He described two to three years as a typical timetable for large projects, citing imported equipment and supply-chain difficulties, but gave no opening date for any individual plant.
The projects are intended to ease the governorate's long-running water shortages. Al-Barqi said population growth and changing consumption patterns had kept pressure on supplies despite earlier expansion and maintenance work.