Alexandria University Engineering Center and Holding Company for Water and Wastewater Forge Groundbreaking Cooperation Protocol
Dr. Ali Abdelmohsen, acting vice President for students affairs, on behalf of Dr. Abdelaziz Konsowa, President of Alexandria University, and Engineer Mamdouh Ahmed Ismail Raslan, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Holding Company for Water and Wastewater, signed a joint cooperation protocol to provide advisory services to complete the integrated strategy project for rainwater management in Alexandria governorate.
It is noteworthy that the project is being implemented based on a mandate from the Prime Minister, and a decision from Major General Mohamed El-Sherif, Governor of Alexandria, regarding the formation of a committee that will study the mechanism of partial separation of the rainwater drainage network within the city of Alexandria, and the protocol concluded between the Water Department of the Engineering Authority of the Armed Forces and the Water Company regarding project execution.
The centre will carry out engineering consultation work for the design and preparation of tender documents for integrated strategy projects for rainwater management in Alexandria, and it will also supervise the implementation of the project, which comes within the framework of the political leadership’s directives to develop radical solutions that contribute significantly to reducing the effects resulting from the repercussions of climate change.
The integrated strategy project for rainwater management is considered one of the most important radical solutions that will contribute in a distinctive way to facing the rainwater season and reducing the effects resulting from the fall of unprecedented amounts of rainwater that Alexandria witnesses every year, in addition to benefiting from rainwater and connecting it to the new delta as part of a huge national project.
The protocol signing ceremony was attended by Major General Mohamed El-Sherif, Governor of Alexandria, Dr. Jacqueline Azer, Deputy Governor, Dr. Walid Abdelazim, Vice Dean of the Faculty of Engineering for Environmental Affairs and Community Service, Dr. Ziad El-Sayyad, Executive Director of the Engineering Centre, and a number of professors, members of the work team, as well as Dr. Salah Bayoumi, Vice President of the Holding Company for Water and Wastewater, Brigadier Engineer Mohamed Galal, Head of the Projects Sector of the Holding Company for Water and Wastewater, Major General Mahmoud Nafea, Chairman of the Board of Directors and Managing Director of the Alexandria Wastewater Company, and Engineer Ahmed Gaber, Chairman of the Board of Directors and Managing Director of the Alexandria Drinking Water Company.