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Qattara Depression project

Informations Qattara depression project

  • 05 16, 2023

The Qattara Depression is located in the dry Libyan Desert, the eastern desert northwest of Egypt. It covers about 7,000 square miles (18,100 square km) and contains salt lakes and marshes, and drops to 435 feet (133 metres) below sea level.

The idea of the project is very briefly based on the construction of a canal from the Mediterranean coast to flow into the Qattara Depression region, to generate electricity and desalinate seawater, to irrigate hundreds of thousands of hectares and to establish agricultural, industrial , towns and mining and tourist communities around the project to the west and east, all as part of the Grand Development Project for the area stretching from South El Alamein to South Sallum in urban areas and exploiting it for development, agriculture, tourism and mining to accommodate 34 million people over the next 40 years.

The depression was created by the influence of time and man on the environment. It was carved out of sedimentary rock of Tertiary age. Its downward slopes descend to pediments that slope southwards to an axial valley, which is now covered with salt crusts, sabkha and salt deposits.

After the retreat of the Mediterranean waters, the Western Desert was formed. A major flow from the Gilf Kebir highlands flowed north to near the site of the Siwa oasis, its silt now covered by the deposits of the Great Sand Sea. If it reached the Mediterranean basin, it may have done so via the system of Sahabi canals in Libya.

Apparently, it became inactive after its waters were diverted underground. When the Mediterranean water is recharged, the underground water and the change in climatic systems are diminished, when the influencing factors of the deserts have completed the formation of the depression to give it its present configuration and character.

Egypt welcomes you with its mighty Nile along the Nile Valley as you explore the east and west bank tour of Luxor. and wonderful monuments with Cairo Top Tours who are ready to offer our clients, the best itineraries in Egypt and Egypt to discover most of the important things to do in Cairo, most visitors will go straight to the most famous visit of the Great Pyramid of Khufu, adventurers, backpackers and travel bloggers could join one of our budget tours in Egypt crossing the Sahara Desert, like the Siwa tours in Cairo for example or preferably the White Desert tours in Egypt.

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The Qattara Depression project is one of the projects listed in the Ministry of Electricity and Energy's plan as a project studied by the authority for the implementation of hydroelectric projects with an installed capacity of 1,800 megawatts. However, the project was not included in any five-year plan for power plant projects for the period from fiscal 2002-2003 to fiscal 2021-2022 (four five-year plans), although, according to many experts, it is a good model for future projects with enormous economic benefits in terms of energy supply and the creation of new urban and civil societies.

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