500 km
First two lines
€1,350
amortized / 10 m
$0.68bn · 12 months
Imported assembly
Technical system
Lake Nasser until year 25.
Delivered water is mainly Lake Nasser water until programme year 25. From that year the P&L uses seawater desalination extensively. By year 13 the old Nile valley irrigation schedule has been changed completely to a modern system. The same P&L volume reaches 94.5 billion cubic metres a year.
Year 2
0.22bn m³
Lake Nasser, main supply
Year 13
Complete
Old valley irrigation, modern
Year 25
Extensive
Seawater desalination, extensive
Years 46–50
94.5bn m³
Pipes, pumps and the augmentation system are the model’s ramp schedule. Augmentation is blank in year 1, and from year 14 the sheet follows the feddans. Delivered water is the P&L series: Lake Nasser through year 24, seawater desalination from year 25. The old-valley bar is complete in year 13. Crops stay straight lines to the stated peaks.
Year
2034
202720522076
Pipes
3,500 km
Working pumps
52
Augmentation
52
Augmentation power
200 MW
Lake Nasser
29.4 bn m³
Seawater desalination
0.00 bn m³
Old valley, modern
62%
Delivered water
29.4 bn m³
Wheat
21,812 kt
Maize
9,640 kt
Sugar beet
16,894 kt
Soybean
4,400 kt
Cotton
0 kt
Four pipe classes
Unit cost per 10 metres falls as volume and local content rise. Later classes are specified 100% local.
2,500 km
Five lines
€998
amortized / 10 m
$2.50bn · 24 months
Pumps and cells out
8,000 km
100% local
€817
amortized / 10 m
$13.1bn · 30 months
Domestic manufacture
18,000 km
100% local
€654
amortized / 10 m
$11.8bn · 45 months
Full local content
Five crops, produced by lessees
Thousand tonnes at peak. Domestic need is met first. Wheat export begins around Year 8.
Wheat
72,000
kt
270 → 19,170 in years 2–6
Maize
44,600
kt
400 → 7,800 in the ramp
Cotton
1,500
kt
Steady from Year 9
Sugar beet
45,750
kt
750 → 15,375 in the ramp
Soybean
4,400
kt
Steady from Year 5