KNOWLEDGE AND IMPLEMENTATION LEVEL OF RURAL WOMEN PRACTICES CONCERNING THE PROTECTION OF RURAL HOUSING ENVIRONMENT FROM POLLUTION IN SOME VILLAGE OF DAKAHLIA GOVERNORATE

Three districts were selected randomly, from each district one village was selected also randomly, these villages were. A sample of 286 respondents 10% of rural women were selected randomly from the investigated area, the sample spread over the three selected villages of the study according to the percentage of representation of each over all. The main research results as follows:
1- About two-thirds of the respondents with percentage reached to 63.29% had low or moderate level of knowledge related to the practices of protecting rural housing environment from pollution, the most practice defined by the respondents was getting rid of wastes and garbage every day as mentioned by 100%, while the less ones was left food without covering cause it contaminated.
2- About nine-tenths of the respondents 88.81% were low or moderate level with practices related to preservation of the rural housing of pollution, the most doing practices is to open windows and ventilate the house a day by 94.40%, and the least of the implementation is the practice of non-food cover causing pollution of 1.75%.
3- Rural women respondents mentioned number of reasons that prevent them from implementing the practices relating to the preservation of the rural housing environment from pollution, the most important was the weakness