El-Salam Canal and El-Sheikh Gaber Canal
Agricultural drainage reuse + conveyance, 4.45 billion m3/year design flow; 620,000 feddans command area; 252.75 km including a 0.77 km siphon under the Suez Canal in Egypt.
Operational
The record
- Country
- Egypt
- Location
- Damietta to North Sinai
- Coordinates
- 31.395, 31.769
- Technology
- Agricultural drainage reuse + conveyance
- Capacity
- 4.45 billion m3/year design flow; 620,000 feddans command area; 252.75 km including a 0.77 km siphon under the Suez Canal
- Capital cost
- —
- Stage
- Operational
- Owner or client
- Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation
- Contractor
- —
- Operator
- —
- Finance
- Government
- Award or start year
- 1997
- Commissioned
- 1997
Record last checked 2026-09-18.
History
- 1997
Canal launched and linked across the Suez Canal to the El-Sheikh Gaber Canal
- 2006
North Sinai reclamation reaches a standstill with 125,000 feddans reclaimed
- 2012
Peer-reviewed description of the automation and monitoring system
Sources
6 references
Every field in the record above is taken from the references below. A field that none of them confirms prints as a dash.
- Donia, N.S., Development of El-Salam Canal Automation System, Journal of Water Resource and Protection, 2012, 4, 597-604. pdfs.semanticscholar.org.
- Intake on the right bank of the Damietta Branch at km 219, 3 km upstream of the Faraskur Dam; designed to convey 4.45 billion m3/year, of which about 2.2 billion m3/year of Nile water and about 2.25 billion m3/year from the Bahr Hadous and Lower Serw drains; command area 620,000 feddans, 220,000 west and 400,000 east of the Suez Canal; canal salinity to stay under 1,250 ppm; total length given as about 277 km, 86 km west and 191 km east.
- El-Amier, Y.A. et al., Hydrochemical Assessment of the Irrigation Water Quality of the El-Salam Canal, Egypt, Water 2021, 13 (17), 2428. mdpi.com.
- Total length 252.75 km, of which 89.75 km west of the Suez Canal as the El-Salam Canal and 163 km east as the El-Sheikh Gaber Canal, linked by the 0.77 km El-Salam siphon; intake at 31.3954 N 31.7690 E; the government plans to reclaim 260,400 hectares along the Sinai Mediterranean coast (bot-walled to curl, read in a browser).
- Egypt Independent, The revival of Al Salam Canal, supposed to develop Sinai, 21 May 2012. egyptindependent.com.
- MENA Water Review major projects register and PPP pipeline — compiled from procurer publications, development-bank project pages and trade reporting; each record names its source.
Launched in 1997 under Prime Minister Kamal al-Ganzouri; only 125,000 feddans reclaimed; work at a standstill from 2006.