Investment Outlays on the Development of the Collective Sewage System of the Village - Selected Problems

The article presents changes in investment outlays in environmental protection, with particular focus on investment outlays incurred on the sewage system of rural areas in Poland in years 2012-2016. The analysis of changes in these investment outlays according to investment directions (such directions as: collective water supply, collective sewerage, collective sewage treatment plants, individual rural sewage treatment plants, landfills) and sources of financing (from the state budget, local governments, rural residents, funds environmental protection and water management, structural funds of the European Union, others, for example EcoFund). The research covered the structure of investment outlays on the sewage system of the village both nationally and in the voivodeship section. The importance of EU structural funds for improving the sanitary condition of the village was emphasized. The most important effects of investment outlays in the development of water supply and sewage networks were presented, including: the increase in the length of collective water and sewage systems, increase in the number of sewage connections to residential and commercial buildings and improvement of the unfavorable relation of the collective length of the water supply network to the length of the sewage system.