El Salam Canal () is a canal built as a part of the Sinai Project. It starts at the Damietta branch of the

Nile The Nile (also known as the Nile River or River Nile) is a major north-flowing river in northeastern Africa. It flows into the Mediterranean Sea. The Nile is the longest river in Africa. It has historically been considered the List of river sy ...

and stretches southwest towards

Lake Manzala Lake Manzala ( ''baḥīrat manzala''), also Manzaleh, is a brackish lake, sometimes called a lagoon, in northeastern Egypt on the Nile Delta near Port Said and a few miles from the ancient ruins at Tanis.Dinar, p.51 It is the largest of the nort ...

, then south to drain at El Sarow drainage. It then moves east and then again south to Hadoos drainage. It then moves east under the

Suez Canal The Suez Canal (; , ') is an artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt, Indo-Mediterranean, connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea through the Isthmus of Suez and dividing Africa and Asia (and by extension, the Sinai Peninsula from the rest ...

in four tunnels. It continues on the other side of the Suez Canal as the El-Sheikh Jaber canal.https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Osama-Sallam-2/publication/274512763_New_Reclamation_Mega_Projects_and_Increasing_the_Pressure_on_Water_System_in_the_Nile_Valley_and_Delta_in_Egypt/links/552228af0cf2f9c130529d21/New-Reclamation-Mega-Projects-and-Increasing-the-Pressure-on-Water-System-in-the-Nile-Valley-and-Delta-in-Egypt.pdf {{Bare URL PDF, date=March 2022

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Canals in Egypt