The state’s Egyptian Countryside Development Company (ECDC) signed a contract with agriculture investor Go Green to establish a water desalination plant near the Western Desert’s Al Magrah Lake, according to a company statement picked up by Amwal Al Ghad. The plant, on which construction has already kicked off, is set to treat 700k cbm of water a year (200 cbm a day). The project is part of ECDC’s work on the Sisi administration’s initiative to reclaim 1.5 mn feddans of desert land for agricultural use. The story provides no further details on the contract.