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11:17 a. M.
Sunday 22 November 2020
Books – Muhammad Khamis:
Eng. Mamdouh Raslan, President of the Holding Company for Drinking Water and Sanitation, said that Egypt entered the rainy belt some time ago, and there is a large part of the climate changes that began to be reflected in the governorates of the Republic, especially in the areas of the north coast, Alexandria and coastal governorates, and the amount of rain that falls is unprecedented each year. The amounts are higher than the previous year.
In a phone call to the “This Morning” program on the satellite channel “Extra News” on Sunday, Raslan said that plans are being put in place to cope with the heavy rains, according to the capacity of the available networks, and there are a daily follow-up with the meteorological authority, which reports the state of the meteorology, the rainfall areas and their possible amounts. And the company’s team is deployed 24 hours before the core.
He added that each drainage network in each governorate has a different capacity from the other, since Alexandria has a capacity of one million and 800 thousand cubic meters of water per day, and the previous amount of rainfall in Alexandria was estimated at 3 million. cubic meters of water, highlighting: “Our network The absorption capacity has begun to absorb the amount of rain, and sometimes we cut the water in some places to empty the drainage networks and be able to absorb the amount of rain, but all the excesses they have started to appear on the streets, and it takes a while to drain to treatment plants.
