Tourism is a significant economic factor for Egypt. Despite the somewhat difficult security situation, the country still remains a popular travel destination.

However, this also has an impact on scarce water resources. Lots of hotel businesses on the Red Sea and the Sinai peninsula are reliant on water from sea-water desalination plants which has gone through complex treatment processes. At the same time, Egyptian agriculture has a considerable demand for water.

Re-use of treated service water from hotel facilities for irrigation purposes can help to meet this demand. This is where the Cologne business MfT Membran and the company TIA from Breitenfelde in Schleswig-Holstein see great potential. These partners therefore developed a pilot unit for the treatment of waste water, which is made available to local agriculture after the clarification process. The pilot unit was inaugurated in a hotel in El Quesir at the beginning of March.