Sanitation at Gaafar, A Generic Profile
Gaafar is deprived from wastewater treatment facilities. For some time the vast majority of the houses were not provided with toilets. People had to defecate in the open, causing some serious health problems, specially for women who tended to refrain from defecation until late at night.
Community development organizations have provided many of the houses with toilets, and at the present time most of the homes are have toilets. Most of the houses are provided with some type of septic tanks for municipal waste collection. These septic tanks are mostly bottomless and waste infiltrated to groundwater, causing some serious pollution to groundwater resources.