Jirian City is just part of another megaproject that became part of a bigger megaproject; this is what we know about it so far.

What we know about Egypt’s New Delta project
 

• PM Madbouly said the New Delta project equals the size of four to five Egyptian governorates and is expected to create approximately 250,000 direct and indirect job opportunities.
• The New Delta will accommodate 2.5 to three million families and establish a large industrial and logistical zone within its borders.
• It covers 2.2 million feddans (with an eventual expansion to 2.8 million), making it the country's most significant land reclamation initiative. It aims to increase Egypt’s cultivated land by up to 23 percent, equivalent to about one-quarter of its agricultural area.
• It is a partnership between the state, represented by the Future of Egypt Agency, and several major real estate development companies with extensive experience in the field, representing the private sector. Three leading firms, Palm Hills, Mountain View, and Nations of Sky, have joined forces to implement the Jirian project.
• The Jirian Project includes three residential compounds, which will be completed within five years and cover an area of 1,600 feddans.
• The project includes an artificial branch of the Nile River extending from Rasheed and passing centrally through the city.

The Jirian project is now part of a bigger project that can be considered Egypt’s New Delta.

The Ministry of Agriculture's spokesperson, Mohamed El-Qersh, revealed more information about the New Delta project to Al-Arabiya News Channel.

• The project is located along the Rawd El-Farag–El-Dabaa axis road, part of the national road network, about 30 minutes from 6 October City.

• It spans the administrative borders of four governorates: Matrouh, Beheira, Giza, and Fayoum.
• The project will add 15 percent new cultivated land to Egypt’s existing agricultural base, supporting food security by prioritizing cultivating strategic crops such as wheat, yellow corn, vegetables, and various fruits.
• One of the project's main goals is maximum efficiency in water use and high productivity per unit of water while establishing new communities, extending road networks, building water desalination and electricity generation stations, and encouraging population movement from the congested Nile Valley to the new lands.
• Egypt employs a multi-source water plan to irrigate that vast area: the Northern Canal (Al-Hammam Canal), the Eastern Canal (Tahya Misr Canal), and the Western Desert Aquifer.
• The Northern Canal is a 170 km water corridor that will transfer 7.5 million m³/day of agricultural drainage water from old Delta areas to Al-Hammam Treatment Plant.
• The Northern Canal includes a 114 km conduit to transport and treat water previously discharged into the Mediterranean.
• The Eastern Canal is a 41.3 km canal drawing from the Rosetta branch of the Nile; it delivers 10 million m³/day for New Delta irrigation.
• The Western Desert Aquifer is a newly identified underground aquifer in the Western Desert that is estimated to support the irrigation of seven million feddans.
• The New Delta encompasses three major subprojects: the New Delta core project, the Future of Egypt initiative, and the Jannat Misr (Paradise of Egypt) project, which is reportedly 100 percent complete

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