" EVALUATION OF COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN EGYPTIAN RURAL SANITATION"

Abstract

The Egyptian community in rural areas and villages suffer from the lack of sewerage systems, depending on centralized treating of wastewater, which is considered an unsuitable solution. This is due to excessive cost of construction, operation and maintenance. However, many countries have gone to the development of the sewerage systems through decentralized and community participation. The objective of the current research is to evaluate community participation in institutional and technical stage in different decentralized sanitation systems in Egypt. Three villages were selected based on community participation each village represents a different treatment, as the decentralized treatments applied to these villages represent most of the treatments applied in Egypt, as well as geographically cover most areas in Egypt.