Red Sea governor expects 40,000 more cubic metres of water a day before next summer
The governor says the Housing Ministry has announced five new desalination plants for Ras Ghareb, Hurghada, Safaga, El Quseir and Marsa Alam, with work already started at two of them.
30 October 2026
Several small desalination plants are being built urgently in the Red Sea governorate and are scheduled to add about 40,000 cubic metres of drinking water a day before the start of next summer, the governor says.
Governor Al-Barqi told the Middle East News Agency the extra output is meant to narrow the gap between the water the governorate produces and what residents consume, until the larger plants are finished.
He said the Housing Ministry has announced five new desalination plants for Ras Ghareb, Hurghada, Safaga, El Quseir and Marsa Alam, and that construction has already begun on two of them, at Ras Ghareb and Safaga. One of the new Hurghada plants is among the projects he expects to open around the governorate's national day in January. He gave no completion dates or individual capacities for the plants.
Other water and sanitation work
- Work is starting on sewerage networks in nine residential areas of Hurghada, at a cost he put at up to one billion pounds.
- Drinking water projects worth 550 million pounds are under way, with further projects worth 300 million pounds added.