1. Simple Sanitation Technology For Egypt Villages Prepared by Sameh Seif Ghali Executive Director Together Association For development and environment R. No\ 19 for the year 2006, 8 Moderiate El-Taraba wel Taleem St. In front of Minia sporty club 4 th. Floor Tel: +2 086\ 2321443 fax: 2321700 office cell: +2 0143780248 Web site: www.TOGETHER-EG.ORG EMAIL: Together.eg19@live.com, info@together-eg.org

2. To build a model for liquid waste and used water treatment facility, simple and low-cost in its design, construction, operation and maintenance, to be a model for rural Egyptian communities, promoting the health of the public and the environment.

3. Constructed wetlands with horizontal sub -surface flow

4. The subject technology was successfully implemented, with private sector funding, in the adjacent villages of Jafar and Jacob (total population, 10,000) in Beni Suef governorate, Egypt.

5.  House connection: is a Pipe a connection between any house and the gravity pipe system, to dispose wastewater from the house to collection system.  Gravity lines: implemented in the streets to collect wastewater from houses.  Lift station: A concrete underground sump to collect wastewater and pump it to wastewater treatment plant  Force main: the pipe that delivery wastewater from the lift station to the treatment plant

6.  The treatment plant: composed of an anaerobic bacteria treatment chamber; an aerated weir; an air injection tank, and finally a gravel bed planted with local cane treating organic matter with naturally generated anaerobic bacteria feeding filtered water into a gravity-fed sequence of three shallow ponds for solar treatment, finally draining into an irrigation feeder line. Sludge produced in the septic tanks is manual collected and spread for drying in three drying beds. Drainage water from the drying beds is collected in a sump and returned to the air-injection chamber by use of a portable submersible pump.

7.  Raise community-wide awareness of the project, its components, its importance to public health and the environment, and the need for universal support for its success.  Encourage members of the community to contribute to project implementation in cash and kind.  Survey and map streets, open spaces and houses

8.  Select station sites for uploading waste water within the village  Select site of treatment plant on the edge of the village  Prepare engineering maps showing the paths, entrances, and exits of waste water within the system.

9.  Select competent engineering consultants to prepare tender documents, including technical specifications of the project and qualifications of bidders.  Implement the project in accordance with an agreed timetable including emplacement of feeder lines, lifting stations, and treatment facility.

10.  Engage a supervising engineer to monitor the quality of implementation on site.  Train village youth, favoring those who are unemployed, on the operation and maintenance of the system.  Form a local committee responsible for follow-up of management arrangements.

11.  Agree on a monthly fee to be paid by each participating family, the aggregate of which is sufficient to cover operation, maintenance, and depreciation.  Put into place a system of fee collection and project management

12. Operation and maintenance of the project may be sustained in either of the following two ways: 1. Create a local NGO, responsible to the community, to collect fees, operate and maintain the system ; Or 2. Turn over the system to the local government holding company for water and waste water for their operation and maintenance and collection of covering costs through a fee levied on the water bill of each participating home. The preferred system is that of the local NGO for reason of resulting greater direct involvement and feeling ownership by the community.

13. The cost of the project for a village of 10,000 citizens is approximately US$250,000 or US$25 per citizen. A similarly sized system built using traditional technology would cost US$4,500,000 (US$450 per citizen) or twenty times the cost of the new technology

14.  Minimal land requirement  Harmonious with nature in appearance and dynamics  Proven technology  Cost of operation and maintenance lower than traditional technology  Good pathogen removal from die-off and natural biological processes  Effective with a wide range of water plants

15.  High levels of treatment possible by increasing planted area  Uses gravity feed to reduce use of energy  Low capital investment (typically 5% of traditional technology)