EGYPT – WATER
July 1st, 2004
KEITH NUTHALL
EGYPTIAN fish farms are being supplied with Cairo wastewater cleansed by innovative biotechnology. In a scheme coordinated by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the Egyptian government is pumping 25,000 cubic metres of water from a drain serving the capital into huge ponds, where sediments settle. The water then flows into specially designed wetlands where plants filter and remove at least three-quarters of the pollutants. "After the water is treated, some flows into pools for fish farming", said the UNDP.
EGYPTIAN fish farms are being supplied with Cairo wastewater cleansed by innovative biotechnology. In a scheme coordinated by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the Egyptian government is pumping 25,000 cubic metres of water from a drain serving the capital into huge ponds, where sediments settle. The water then flows into specially designed wetlands where plants filter and remove at least three-quarters of the pollutants. "After the water is treated, some flows into pools for fish farming", said the UNDP.
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