Egypt is Building a $9.7BN New Nile Delta

Egypt is building the world’s largest artificial river, which will transform 9,200 square kilometers of desert into a new Nile Delta, helping feed its exploding population. Announced in March 2021 by Egyptian president Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, the project will involve new canals and artificial rivers to redirect agricultural wastewater from the Nile River to a new water treatment plant. It will then be used to irrigate 9,200 square kilometers of desert into farmland, creating a region called The New Delta. The project will create a list of benefits, such as increasing Egyptian food security, exports, and helping solve the water scarcity problem. Since announced, construction has advanced significantly.

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Video Chapters
0:00-2:57 Introduction
2:57-5:56 The New Delta
5:56-6:51 Benefits
6:51-8:59 Ethiopia Dam
8:59-10:51 Project Updates

[FuturologyChannel]

Hey guys, thanks for watching! What do you think about Egypt’s New Delta?

[SeeLasSee]

Well, Egyptians have loved mega projects for thousands of years.

[eges]

Imagine travelling back in time and telling the Romans that their breadbasket will be one of the largest grain importers 2000 years later

[gorgyo]

Well done Egypt!
Love from Greece 🇪🇬 ❤🇬🇷

[save_sudan_and_palestine]

Good luck Egypt. 👍
Love Egypt from Morocco 🇪🇬❤🇲🇦

[istoppedcaring]

megaprojects always sound great but rarely meet the often utopian preconceptions made around it

[malekaltayari]

Good luck from Tunisia
🇹🇳🌹🇪🇬 ❤
حبايبنا أهل مصر ❤

[rodeolo]

Well-done, very informative. good luck to Egypt & the Egyptian people.

[felineboy]

I am so happy to have supported this channel for so long

[Ptoly]

I believe this was based off of a previous attempt where Germany and Egypt cooperated to form an artificial new lake in Egypt by creating several canals moving into the Qattara Depression which was a lake thousands of years ago but dried up. Egypt denied this project however due to the fear that it could poison it's water supplies

[waledharedy]

I was chocked of how fast and amazing work they did in a very short time ! I think they’re going into the right direction . Egyptian people love bread ! I don’t think anyone in the world can claim more love for bread than Egyptian .

[galaleldin]

I'm Egyptian and I'll try to summarise the conditions here with 100% honesty. my true opinion on the economic state and the living expenses. People are getting more poorer and life expenses are skyrocketing. We have a foreign currency shortage so importing materials necessary for industrial and agricultural purposes is halted. These projects are magnificent and i 100% support them and support the government choices, my point is that these project should've been done so much earlier than that, maybe 7 or 8 years ago instead of the new cities and hot cash policies ( we're in huge debt to the IMF) it'd done huge difference and fortified our economy against the current economic crisis. This country and it's people are made of steel whether u support the government or not ( i disagree with the current government in many aspects before calling me a blind supporter)

[minasynth]

This is an amazing and ambitious project. On a side note, thanks for your great explanation and amazing motion graphics and video editing skills! Being engaged in these kind of videos is not an easy task and you did it very well! 👏🏼👏🏼

[felineboy]

You explanation if the project is by far the most superior one i have seen about this topic

[AbleReason]

Ironic that Egypt is short of wheat as they used to be the main source of wheat for the Roman Empire.

[shehta]

This project is designed by me
It relies mainly on the reuse of drainage water and wastewater in the West Delta region, which is estimated at 6.5 million cubic meters per day, and was dumped into the Mediterranean Sea through the Max stations.
In addition to the dainage water and treated sewage water of Alexandria governorate with one million cubic meters of fresh water through Al-Nasr Canal to reduce salinity
400, 000 feddans will be cultivated on this water in the south of Dabaa axis

[xyzthebeliever]

After watching many big channels this video answered my questions in first 10 seconds good job 👍 this is how it should be done straight to the point no philosophy or propaganda just pure knowledge ...thanks

[Ratrace]

i hopeEgypt will succed love from Italy 💘

[jirislavicek]

Excellent Project 👍👍👍
Egypt should deploy modern agricultural methods in the New Delta and do maximum to protect the soil from degradation by salt and fertilisers.

[Khaled]

Well done Egypt! The previous regime of Hosni Mubarak never had any foresight for future needs whilst witnessing the population grow!