Every number Alexandria's services actually answer on — the governorate's operations room, the water company, the sewerage company, electricity and the emergency lines — grouped by what has gone wrong.
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Alexandria's services do not share a phone book. The governorate runs an operations room; drinking water and sewage are two separate companies with two separate hotlines; electricity is a third. Every one of those numbers already appears somewhere on this site, buried in the page it belongs to — this is all of them in one place, grouped by what has gone wrong.
One thing worth knowing before you need it: the short numbers are dialled from a landline. Where a body publishes a mobile alternative, it is on the card.
A flooded street is 175, not 125
If the ambulance line does not answer
Ambulance
Medical emergencies, anywhere in Egypt. If it does not answer, the Health Directorate's direct lines for Alexandria are 03 3925810 and 03 3923028, and 137 asks which hospital has an intensive-care bed or an incubator free.
Civil Defence — fire and rescue
Fires, and people trapped. This is also the number for a building that has come down or looks about to: Civil Defence attends, and the governorate's operations room on 114 is told at the same time.
Operations room
The governorate's own 24-hour line for anything the city is meant to fix — a road, a street light, uncollected rubbish, water standing after a storm. 114 works from a landline. From a mobile, ring one of 03 4234131, 03 4234132, 03 4234133, 03 4234134, 03 4234135, 03 4234136 or 03 4234137; they all reach the same room.
Alexandria Water Company
Drinking water: no supply, weak pressure, water that looks or smells wrong, a burst main, and asking for a tanker when your area is cut off. 125 from a landline, or 03 5815700 from a mobile.
Alexandria Sanitary Drainage Company (ASDCO)
Sewage and drainage: a blocked gully, a manhole surcharging or missing its cover, a street that will not drain. It runs more than 750 km of network for the city.
Alexandria Electricity Distribution Company
Power cuts, network and transformer faults, and complaints about a bill or a meter reading. 121 is the line every Egyptian distribution company uses; it logs a complaint number you can chase.
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Tourist and Antiquities Police
A separate force for trouble at a site, with a guide, or with a vendor.
Water regulator (EWRA) — to escalate
If the company has not dealt with it, the national water regulator takes complaints through its own portal. Report to the company first: the regulator will ask what they said.