3.3. The relation between government’s efforts to protect the waterways from pollution and temporal trends in WQI
According to data issued from the Ministry of Housing, investment in sanitation field during 2010–2011 can be summarized as follows:
(i) Investment in the field of sewage during facial year 2010–2011 increased to 4.1 billion LE, which lead to remarkable increase in the capacity and power also in average per capita share of the sanitation design.
(ii) The percentage of sewage coverage increased in towns and cities, where in cities it reaches 75% in 2008 and village 8%, and in 2010/2011 the percentage of sewage coverage reached 90% in cities and 12% in villages.
(iii) The Ministry of Housing has set an executive and integrated plan to increase percentage of sanitation coverage invillages to 40%, and this percentage will increase to 100% during the coming 15 years.