Irrigation Ministry planning new dam in Shalatin area

Egypt’s Irrigation Ministry is planning a 12m-high dam in the disputed Shalatin area, head of the ministry’s ground water department Sameh Sakr said earlier in the week, Mubasher reports. The dam, with the ministry says will be the biggest in Egypt’s Eastern Desert, will have a storage capacity of 7 mn cubic meters of water and will be built by Egyptian Armed Forces’ National Service Projects Organization, said Sakr in a statement to MENA news agency. He reassured that the project will not be an obstacle in the road to the Upper valleys, nor will it affect the ecological balance in anyway. The sovereignty of the Shalatin region, along with Halayeb, is being disputed by Sudan.