The Wabag (VATW) Group won two contracts to provide drinking water from the Nile river to 800,000 people in Egypt. The group will build water-treatment plants in the cities of Suez and Port to produce a combined 155,000 cubic meters a day of clean drinking water, according to a statement on the group’s website. The orders worth 13 million euros ($18 million) are from the state-owned Suez Canal Authority, according to the statement. The Suez plant will have have a capacity of 75,000 cubic meters per day, according to the statement. The El Raswa project in Port Said will have a capacity to produce 80,000 cubic meters of drinking water daily and is scheduled to start in the spring of 2017.