RURAL WATER SUPPLY AND SANITATION

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The Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Project seeks to improve access by rural populations to safe potable water and to support Morocco's implementation of a program to supply water to rural populations. There are four components. For the first component, new and rehabilitated and improved water supply facilities will be installed in communities, villages, and groups of villages of stated populations. The community participation approach will integrate the provision of safe drinking water, sanitation services, and health and hygiene education. The second component consists of making sanitation investments; constructing safe wastewater and excreta disposal systems; using appropriate technology; a hygiene education program; and providing public installations on a pilot basis, such as block latrines for schools, small sewer collectors, and community septic tanks, as well as lagoon-type wastewater treatment. The participatory approach, component three, will include community mobilization and health education, carried out mainly by local personnel. The fourth component will help provide technical back-stopping, monitoring, and evaluation for the decentralized project implementation by enlisting the services of local and international consultants.