Alexandria Water Company and its Impact on the Alexandrian Community (1869-1958): A Historical and Documentary Study

   This study aims to examine the effect of the flow of foreign investments in Egypt, especially after the economic experience of Muhammad Ali was hit and the foreigners obtained many privileges that had a direct impact on pumping their money and investing in Egypt. This resulted in providing them with the opportunity to establish many companies contributing in the field of services and public facilities, such as water, gas and electricity in the city of Alexandria, the most important of which is the Alexandria Water Company, which was established to provide pure water to the city's neighborhoods. The study also aims to shed light on the establishment of the English Alexandria Water Company and the mechanisms used by the company to provide water to the city’s residents and how the Egyptian government had the right to control the activities the company's capital and the impact of the company's activities on the Alexandrian community.
 
     The study concluded that foreign capital and companies were able to control projects of public benefit and that the company was able to control Alexandria's water facilities for nearly a century, which had a direct impact on the city’s population and its society, such as expanding the urban expansion of the city, supplying clean water and raising the health level of the city dwellers. The study also found that the Egyptian Revolution of 1952 had a direct impact on foreign investments when the Egyptian government egyptianized the company in 1958, issued a law to nationalize it in July 1961, and then converted it into an Egyptian joint stock company.
 
   The study relies mainly on documents such as the notebooks and documents of the Sunni authorities, Turkish and Arab, the minutes of the municipal and administrative commission sessions, the municipal commission of the city of Alexandria, the documents of the Alexandria governorate, and the reports and statistics of the joint-stock companies in Egypt.