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Rebuilding the Infrastructure |
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In developing the infrastructure for Qena governorate, Qena City, being a main economic and tourist attraction, was the starting point for the first phase. Meanwhile, the second phase included extending the scope of development work to the rest of the governorate towns and villages. |
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The infrastructure of Qena city was comprehensively rebuilt; including water sanitary drainage, electricity and telephone networks, and this was the first time in fifty years for such re-vamping work to take place. |
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Electricity networks in towns and villages were replaced, refurbished and developed. Street lamps in the towns were replaced by new sodium lamps. The lamps were arranged with a space interval of 25 meters instead of 30 meters as before. The removed street lamps were distributed among villages and hamlets. They were also used in lighting the roads between villages to prevent accidents. |
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- The space area of some streets was doubled, and green areas were added. - All streets were mapped, street lights were added and pedestrian fields were marked. - In coordination with the Ministry of Irrigation, drainage and water canals passing through the city were covered, were transformed into green areas, and were decorated with flowers and lights. o A total number of 1,745 streets in Qena city were paved, covering a total area of 186 km. |
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- The development and refurbishment processes extended to the rest of the governorate towns, including: Nagaa Hamadi, Deshna, EI-Wakf, Nakada. Qoos and Armant. - The development and refurbishment extended to cover the roads linking villages with main roads. - All the roads between the villages were paved, lit and linked with means of transportation, on the premises that creating an effective communication network would be a major incentive for turning the wheel of development. Hence, that was why part of the required work was implemented within the framework of the Urgent Plan investments, while the rest was funded through international grants received from the European Union, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the Swiss Fund and the Spanish Fund. o The total area of roads paved during the period from 1999 to 2004 reached 463 km. In addition 175 km were paved within towns and 44 km within the industrial zone. - The development included maintaining, replacing and refurbishing old roads. o The total length of paved roads from 1999 to 2004 reached 263 km. - In the field of potable water, the projects implemented were: potable water projects, digging new wells, and establishment of a major water station. Furthermore, the potable water networks in towns and villages were renovated and replaced. Despite the increase in population, each person's water ration increased by 20% last year. o Water ration/individual rose from 127 liters per day in late 2003 to 156 liters per day in 2004. - In the field of sanitary drainage, the capacity of the sanitary drainage network in Qena city was increased. The execution of the sanitary drainage development projects in Abo Tesht, Farshoot, Nagaa Hamadi, Esna, Qoos and Armant started concurrently. A segment of the international funds was directed to the implementation of sanitary drainage networks in villages: o The capacity of the sanitary drainage network in Qena city increased to 40 liters per day in 2003, compared to 22 liters per day in 1999. o The work on increasing the capacity of Qena water station is in progress. The capacity will increase from 600 liters per second to 1200 liters per second. The average capacity of the drainage purification station will be increased from 25 thousand liters cube per day, to 75 thousand liters cube per day. |
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