Water Resources Protection and Management: Illustrative Work

On a series of projects over the years from 1994 to 1997, Chemonics Egypt conducted comprehensive literature reviews and field studies to assess the sources and impacts of drain pollution in the watersheds of the northeastern Delta and the Fayoum, and prepare pollution mitigation measures and engineering interventions to protect wetlands and fisheries and enhance the suitability of drainage water for intermediate reuse in agriculture.

Chemonics Egypt has provided feasibility study and project formulation assistance for local irrigation and drainage improvements.

Chemonics Egypt participated in an evaluation of the 20-year Netherlands program of assistance to the Egyptian water management and drainage sector, reviewing the relevance and effectiveness of the program’s capital improvements and the impact of the various projects on the effectiveness and responsiveness of ministry-level public authorities and research institutes, governorate and district irrigation departments, and local water user associations.

Chemonics Egypt assisted the Ministry’s Institutional Reform Unit in its second donor roundtable conference on sector reform by identifying legal prerequisites and organizational strengthening needs for decentralized, user-based water management bodies at the district level and introducing

private sector participation in operations and maintenance.