EGYPT: Poor drainage systems put villagers’ health at risk

CAIRO Thursday, September 18, 2008 (IRIN) - Northern villages have been flooded, and houses submerged, due to poor drainage as well as rising ground-water level this month, locals said. Shoubrabkhoum, a village in Menufiyya, for example, saw a rise in ground-water levels of 500cm caused by poor sanitary drainage. Drilling of the sanitary drainage station in the village has been taking place for three years but it will be at least another five years before it operates at full force, according to...