In a statement to “Sky News Arabia”, Mahmoud Nafeh, head of the Alexandria Water and Sanitation Company, said that the Meteorological Authority is now working on an accurate estimate of the volume of water that fell on the city.
At the same time, Nafeh pointed out, “The initial estimate says that more than two million cubic meters of water fell on Alexandria, during two and a half hours of continuous rain, on Monday.”
He explained, “This estimate was made on the basis that the city’s drainage networks accommodate 1.9 million cubic meters of water, and given that the network did not absorb this volume, the water certainly crossed the barrier of at least two million cubic meters, on Monday alone.”
The official pointed out that the Meteorological Authority has 3 large monitoring stations in Alexandria, working to estimate the exact volume of water that fell, and that “all of this is useful in future planning to deal with the upcoming rain waves.”
The head of the Alexandria Water and Sanitation Company stressed that “the authorities dealt professionally with the rain wave this time, although it was very severe,” stressing that this “led to avoid the problems that occurred in previous years, such as the disruption of traffic in the streets and other crises that accompanying rain.
He stressed that work is continuing to raise the efficiency of the water and torrential drainage networks in Alexandria, and to increase their carrying capacity.
The Meteorological Authority had announced that the wave of instability in the weather in the Egyptian governorates ends on Tuesday, as the rains stop falling, while water mist forms in the early morning only.
It is noteworthy that 12 Egyptian governorates, including Cairo and Alexandria, were subjected to a violent wave of rain that began at midnight on Friday and continued in some of them until Monday, which prompted decisions to temporarily suspend studies in a number of cities until the end of the fluctuating weather wave.
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