Egypt Opens the Mubarak Pumping Station on the Toshka Project
Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation
CONFIRMED78% CONFIDENCESources agree the Mubarak Pumping Station "was inaugurated in March 2005"; no source gives the exact day, so this pin is dated to the start of that month.[1]
The world's largest pumping station begins lifting water from Lake Nasser into the Sheikh Zayed Canal, launching Egypt's attempt to grow a second Nile valley 310 km into the Sahara.
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