Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi discussed on Tuesday with Board Chairman of the Dredging, Environmental and Marine Engineering NV (DEME) Company Luc Bertrand, along with a number of the company senior officials the national project for the comprehensive development of Bardawil Lake.
The Bardawil project comes within the government’s strategy aimed at developing Egyptian lakes and restoring their previous condition.
The Bardawil Lake project, which was launched in 2017, targets increasing the lake's productivity and preserving its fish reserves by enforcing hunting laws to prevent all fishing violations. The project's objectives also include allocating designated villages for fishermen in order to raise their standards of living.
For the DEME Head, Luc Bertrand expressed his company’s aspiration to cooperate with Egypt in developing the Bardawil, given the lake's unique location on the Mediterranean Sea and its high-quality fish wealth, it's expected to have a wide positive impact on developing the North Sinai region, providing job opportunities, restoring the environmental balance of the lake, improving water quality and achieving food security.
The development of the Bardawil is positioned to integrate with a bigger strategy of the Sinai Peninsula development, a national venture which Egypt has allocated for an amount of 275 billion Egyptian pounds ($15.6 billion) and is estimated to be completed by 2022.
The lake project is significant for its anticipated contribution in boosting fish production on national levels as well as the unlocking of numerous work opportunities.
Source: Al-Ahram Online
