The Drinking Water and Wastewater Company in Giza announced that the water will be cut off in the villages of: “Ghammaza Al-Kubra – Nazlet Alyan – Al-Ikhsas, Al-Attiyat – Tarkhan – Al-Shobak Al-Sharqi”, for a period of 6 hours, starting from twelve o’clock tomorrow, Friday, corresponding to 8/25/2023 until the hour. Six in the morning on Saturday, 8/26/2023.
The company attributed the reason for the interruption due to the work of the water lift project and the ejection line feeding the villages of “Arab al-Tarabin, Abu Hammoud, and Abu Arida” in al-Saf as part of the Decent Life Initiative.
The company appeals to citizens, government agencies, local authorities and units, bakeries, and hospitals to procure their water needs during the business period.
The company provides potable water vehicles located in the areas affected by the water outage until the completion of the works, and in case of request, please call the hotline 125.
The Drinking Water and Wastewater Company in Sohag had started the replacement and renovation work at the Tahta surface water station in the Tahta center and the Saksaka water station in the Tama center, at a value of 100 million pounds. This was stated by Eng. Mohamed Salah El-Din Abdel-Ghaffar, Head of the Drinking Water and Sanitation Company in Sohag, and added that the replacement and renovation work at the Tahta water station costs 85 million pounds, which feeds the city of Tahta to raise the operational efficiency of the station to reach its design capacity of 34 thousand cubic meters per day, and the replacement and renewal of a water station The surface sacsaka in the Tama Center at a cost of 15 million pounds, which feeds the city of Tama and its villages with a design capacity of 85 thousand cubic meters per day and serves 350 thousand people, and that these works aim to upgrade and improve drinking water services, maintain investments and sustain the service to provide a cup of clean water and achieve citizen satisfaction.
Engineer Ramadan Shaaban, head of the operation and maintenance sector, explained that the replacement and renovation work for the stations is represented in the restoration of the clarifiers and distribution wells from the inside, the replacement and renewal of sand filters, alum basins, the alum injection system, as well as the primary and final chlorine injection line, the replacement and renewal of the chlorine supplies hold, the replacement and renewal of ground tanks, in addition to that. To the replacement and renovation of laboratories and the chemical building, the provision of the latest laboratory equipment, the supply and installation of electric motors with a capacity of 180 horsepower, as well as the replacement and renewal of filter pumps.