The project's first step was taken through digging Sheikh Zayed Canal, the Canal named after UAE President Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan thanks to his relentless efforts to further development projects in Egypt. The canal streams from the north of Toshka spillway, Lake Naser, largest artificial lake created behind the High Dam to accommodate access to water from Egypt's annual 55.5 billion cubic meters share of the Nile waters, to the new valley oases through three phases. Currently, the Egyptian Survey Authority is providing maps of Sheikh Zayed canal's route and of areas decided to be reclaimed through aerial surveying and photographing and surveying available for investors who yearn for taking part in such gigantic project. As for the second phase's digging works, they are to be extended along 350Km to reach the south Oasis of Paris in order to irrigate 200,000 feddans in the East Owainat area. Believing in development as the best way to realize prosperity, and living no stone unturned to have such project bears fruit, President Hosni Mubarak paid the gigantic project of Toshka four field tours to follow up, in person, digging works and to give great momentum to the stead-fast Egyptians who found nothing more enjoyable than turning the yellow desert to green.
Image is bright and future is better.
Happy birthday to Toshka.