Following a joint meeting to monitor the drinking water and wastewater systems in Minya, Engineer Sherif El-Sherbiny, Minister of Housing, Utilities, and Urban Communities, and Major General Emad Kadwani, Governor of Minya, visited the Bartabat Wastewater Treatment Plant. This project is designed to serve 17 villages in the Maghagha Center of the governorate as part of the presidential initiative “Decent Life” (Hayah Kareema). The visit was also attended by several officials from the Ministry of Housing and Minya Governorate, in addition to representatives from the Holding Company for Water and Wastewater, the National Authority for Potable Water and Sanitary Drainage, the Minya Drinking Water and Wastewater Company, and the project’s executing companies.
The Minister of Housing, the Governor of Minya, and their accompanying delegation toured the Bartabat Wastewater Treatment Plant project. The plant is expected to serve a total of 17 villages with a treatment capacity of up to 20,000 cubic meters per day, benefiting approximately 200,000 residents. The officials received a detailed briefing on the plant’s components, which span across 11 acres. These include the intake unit, screening systems, sand traps, aeration and sedimentation basins, sludge return systems, chlorine mixing tanks, sludge concentration and drying units, as well as the transformer and generator buildings, air blowers, warehouse, workshop, and the administrative building.
Minister El-Sherbiny and Governor Kadwani also reviewed the station’s readiness for operation. The Minister emphasized the importance of accelerating the plant’s entry into service immediately after the completion of all trials and operational tests.