Red Sea (Mainland)

According to the environmental group "World Wide Fund for Nature", the economic cost over a 25 year period of destroying one kilometer of coral reef is somewhere between $ 137,000 and $ 1,200,000. About 6 million tons of fish are taken from coral reefs each year.

In 2010 HEPCA initiated the Coastal Survey Project (CSP) in order to perform the first quantitative survey of our natural resource in the Red Sea, especially coral reefs. The main aim of the project is to determine the most sensitive habitats and collect data on what resources we have in Egypt as a first step for conserving them. Moreover, the project is also collecting data on the threats and human impacts on our precious resources and developing management plans and solutions for decision makers in order to protect and conserve these resources.

yes that's right, we are going to work on only one of them, and i will be the one who is working on it..

some basic information: The Red Sea Governorate has an area of 130,000 km, weather in plains is mainly dry and hot, highlands are colder and not populated, rainfall is very low, and is not considered as a water resource at all. the total population is 220,000, some are Bedouin and the rest are located in small cities.

The water resources in Red Sea can be classified into
: underground water,
potable water transported by pipeline, and desalinated water. Also, desalination units are categorized as government-owned units (Ministry of Development) and the private sector owned units.

The uses of the Red Sea water: Agriculture (seasonal and the cultivated area is very small, and there is no any plans for expansion in agriculture), Domestic (the population is very low in this area, and the south of Red Sea Governorate only relies on desalination, and the rest of the cities rely on water from the Nile), Tourism (Tourism activities are supplied mainly by desalinated water), Recreational ( Recreational areas are irrigated by treated sewage water. Each resort treats its wasted water and uses it in garden irrigation).

Important note is that this information is mainly about the Red Sea govern-ate area...(Red Sea Coast)

There are two main lines (Fig. 6 and Table 1): The first is Qena-Safaga pipeline with total length of 180 km. There are three parallel lines with different diameters. They have been erected on different periods from 1967 to 2000; the diameters are 200 mm, 300 mm and 400 mm. They are supported by 13 pumping stations distributed on the distance from Qena to Safaga. The total capacity of the lines is 17,000 m3/d distributed on three cities: Hurghada, Safaga and El-Quseir as 7000 m3/d, 5000 m3/d and 5000 m3/d, respectively, Table 1. The second line is the Koraimat pipeline, which has been erected recently on 1997 with diameter 1000 mm until Ras Ghareb and 600 mm to Hurghada. The total capacity of the pipeline is 28,000 m3/d distributed on three cities: Zaafarana, Ras Ghareb and Hurghada as 5500 m3/d, 5000 m3/d and 17,500 m3/d, respectively. There are seven pumping stations on the pipeline. The total cost of this pipeline is 660 millions L.E. which was equivalent to $US 194 millions. The installation cost per m3 depreciated on 15 years is 2.15 L.E./m3 or $US 0.64. The running cost including maintenance cost is 1.5 L.E. The total cost including installation cost is 3.5 L.E. which equivalent approximately to one US$.

Nile Water Transported by Pipeline to Red Sea Governorate and its costs

Desalinated Water Most of the Red Sea region uses desalination to respond to water demand requirements. There are two categories of desalination units: first is government-owned units (Ministry of Development); second is the privatesector- owned units. Table 2 presents the government-owned desalination units and the technology used. Table 3 presents the private-sector-desalination units. The total amount of desalinated water is 34,750 m3/d or 12.68 Mm3/y. The units using Reverse Osmosis (RO) technology produce 25,250 m3/d and the vapor compression (VC) produce 4500 m3/d.