Geographic Area:

Entire Egypt

Area of Development:

Control and sustainable management of the environmental heritage

Sector:

Planning of water resources

Executive body:

DGCS

Institutional counterpart:

National Water Research Center

Other funding parties:

Government of Egypt

Beneficiaries:

Rural communities

Period of implementation:

2003 - 2005

Amount and nature of the funds:

220,000 € grant through the debt swap

Type of intervention:

Technical assistance, training, capacity building, research

Objective:

Studying the effects of water pollution on the systems of supply through manual pumps

Description of the project:

It is a pilot project expected to be implemented on a large scale in rural areas. It aims at controlling and improving the quality of water supply through the systems of manual pumping.