UPPER EGYPT DRAINAGE

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The proposed project would provide: (A) Drainage and reclamation works over an area of 300,000 feddans to prevent continued decline in land productivity due to salinization and waterlogging. It comprises: (i) installation of 30,000 km of buried field tile drains and 4,000 km of collector drains; (ii) improvements to 775 km of existing and excavation of 865 km of open drains; (iii) construction of four new pumping stations and expansion of an existing one where gravity drainage is not possible; (iv) reclamation of 22,400 feddans of severely saline land; (v) equipment and spare parts for (i) - (iv) above; (vi) monitoring soil salinity and groundwater levels throughout the Nile Valley in Upper Egypt; (vii) consultants services, fellowships for and training of Egyptian personnel both in Egypt and overseas. (B) Bilharzia Control Program, including consultants' services, in an area of 900,000 feddans covering a discrete irrigation system and including about half the new open drains to be constructed under the project.