New Administrative Capital Nile Water Transmission
Bulk conveyance + pumping, 1.5 million m3/day design; 400,000 m3/day first treatment phase; about 67 km of route and 144 km of 2,200 mm mains in Egypt.
Under construction
The record
- Country
- Egypt
- Location
- Helwan to the New Administrative Capital
- Coordinates
- 30.020, 31.750
- Technology
- Bulk conveyance + pumping
- Capacity
- 1.5 million m3/day design; 400,000 m3/day first treatment phase; about 67 km of route and 144 km of 2,200 mm mains
- Capital cost
- —
- Stage
- Under construction
- Owner or client
- New Urban Communities Authority
- Contractor
- Arab Contractors, Orascom Construction, Concord for Engineering and Contracting and Ebna Elaam
- Operator
- —
- Finance
- Government
- Award or start year
- 2019
- Commissioned
- —
Record last checked 2026-09-18.
History
- 2019-11
Ministry of Housing starts the Nile transfer scheme at 1.5 million m3/day for about EGP 14 billion
- 2026-08
Capital still supplied by two temporary lines of about 300,000 m3/day, with the 400,000 m3/day treatment plant due in service the following year
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.
- Al-Shorouk, Housing Ministry begins the project to transfer Nile water to the Administrative Capital at a capacity of 1.5 million cubic metres a day (Arabic), 24 November 2019. shorouknews.com.
- Capacity 1.5 million m3/day; investment about EGP 14 billion; intake from the Nile south of Helwan by the regional ring road; about 67 km of lines; contractors Arab Contractors, Ebna Elaam, Orascom Construction and Concord; client the New Urban Communities Authority; five underground strategic tanks of 100,000 m3 in total.
- ECPC Egypt, The New Administrative Capital Water Lines. ecpc.com.eg.
- Total capacity 1.5 million m3/day at about EGP 17.7 billion; three 2,200 mm delivery lines totalling 144 km; ECPC supplying 29,000 m of prestressed concrete pipe.
- Cairo 24, The New Administrative Capital company on the drinking water plant (Arabic), 11 August 2026. cairo24.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.
The capital is still served by two temporary lines from 10th of Ramadan and New Cairo totalling about 300,000 m3/day, with a 400,000 m3/day plant due in service the following year.