truck costs

By Global Women's Water Initiative Posted on Tue 19 Jul 2011, over 13 years ago

hi there

I'm wondering why you chose to use the plastic filters? Are they manufactured locally? Are they shipped in?

Also, the truck and fuel costs seem to be a significant part of the budget. Can you go into more detail about this?

thanks
Gemma

Capacity Building

By Water For The Americas Posted on Wed 20 Jul 2011, over 13 years ago

After the installation of the filters and training the filter owners, doing the training in the schools and for adults in environmental aspects to help the watershed, what plans do you have to continue helping the communities with capacity building?
Most communities have community development councils or water boards. You list community hygiene committees. Do the communities have a more general community management group and if so, do you have any plans to train them?
I like your ideas of training school children in the clubs or in other ways. When you get those training plans developed, will you share them with us? We have plans to do the same in the future and do not have plans yet. The same for the training of adults in environmental skills. Can you share those training plans?

Capacity Building

By Pure Water for the World Posted on Mon 25 Jul 2011, over 13 years ago

One plan is to return with PWW's Mobile Training Program and hold refresher courses ( use and maintenance of the filter, hygiene and environmental education) for community agent, teachers, and community members.

Usually the communities PWW works in do not have a water board. In Honduras, the communities form a water board when they have a community system and they have to pay a monthly fee. In our case since we work in communities that do not have a water system, we have to work with the Patronatos ( usually formed by the most active community leaders or like you mention community management groups that have legal representation ), whom we train in the use and maintenance of the filter.

We would be willing to to share our training plans with you however our staff will need to translate them. They then will be having the plans evaluated by an external organization, with the education developer CAWST, to measure their effectiveness. Currently they are in the process of evaluating the community agent program. We are also using some of the modules for Healthy Home and School ( revised version) which are from UNICEF.

Thanks,
Jamin
Pure Water for the World

truck costs

By Global Women's Water Initiative Posted on Tue 19 Jul 2011, over 13 years ago

hi there

I'm wondering why you chose to use the plastic filters? Are they manufactured locally? Are they shipped in?

Also, the truck and fuel costs seem to be a significant part of the budget. Can you go into more detail about this?

thanks
Gemma

truck costs

By Pure Water for the World Posted on Wed 20 Jul 2011, over 13 years ago

Good morning,

We chose plastic filters in this region of Honduras, for several reasons:

1.The roads in almost all the communities in Trojes are not paved and in very bad condition. They are very narrow, more like pathways for horses and not vehicles, and when it rains it's very challenging to deliver the materials.
2. Houses in these communities are very dispersed.To get from one house to another is a 30 minute walk or more in some cases. For these communities, plastic rather than concrete filters is more practical. To transport, PWW can fit more in one truck ( 20 filters at a time versus 7-8 concrete filters) and there is the difference in weight ( the concrete are 175 pounds and the plastic are only 25 pounds). The plastic filters are easy to carry in the community especially when they need to be carried by hand. The plastic filter reduces accidents ( both employees and beneficiaries) , with less back pain due to the heavy weight of the concrete.
3. The plastic filters are manufactured in the U.S. and imported to Honduras

Cost of the fuel:

1.The cost of fuel in Honduras is increasing every week. It is more expensive in Trojes then in the capital of Tegucigalpa.
2. The distance to each community is about a one to two hour drive from the PWW office. If the vehicle is loaded with materials (filters and sand) it consumes more fuel then when going back to give trainings.
3. The project has several phases which means several trips to just one community: base line survey, socialization, community agent trainings, filter delivery, filter installation , monitoring, hygiene trainings, de worming, latrine construction, and water analysis.

Thanks!
Jamin

truck costs

By Blue Planet Network Posted on Mon 25 Jul 2011, over 13 years ago

are the filters stacked (bulk packed) or individually packed?
from the design document, could be either.

any installation like fitting the outlet/pipe?

thanks,
rajesh

truck costs

By Pure Water for the World Posted on Fri 29 Jul 2011, over 13 years ago

Good morning,

The filters are bulk packed. The outlet pipe comes separate from the filter and is very easy to install. This allows us to stack the filters when transporting them.

Jamin

Technology and past project results

By Agua Para La Salud (APLS) Posted on Fri 15 Jul 2011, over 13 years ago

Would you post a design of your sand filter; elaborate on the contact time with the community for the educational element; and give some information on other projects completed and the degree of long term use of the filters? Thanks ....Lynn

Technology and past project results

By Pure Water for the World Posted on Mon 18 Jul 2011, over 13 years ago

Good morning,

Thank you for your thoughts and questions. I have uploaded a document which gives technical information on the bio sand filter. Concerning the amount of time spent on educational activities with the communities, for the families in the communities with the workshops combined it works out to be 3 days of education. For the Community Agent program, there is one day of tutorial and class room time, and then the following day is hands on work in the communities. For the teacher training, there is a one day workshop on hand washing, which they need to replicate the next day to show PWW staff that they are able to cover the material properly.

Pure Water has been working in Honduras since the late 1990's. Our work in Trojes began in 2008 with a partnership with UNICEF to work in 32 communities located in this Municipality. Pure Water has had volunteers complete studies on previous projects which show continued use of the filters, yet we have seen areas for improvement more specifically in educational training. Since our work began in Trojes, our volunteers and staff members have done monitoring in the communities from the first Trojes communities completed in 2009 to more recent communties completed in 2010. We are finding that the filters are being maintained and used correctly. The increased education has benefited these communties and Pure Water is working to incorporate more follow- up to ensure that the education and behavioral change has truly taken hold in the communities- thus making a more sustainable project. Pure Water will also be going back to older projects in other areas of Honduras to follow up on filters use and continuence of educational learnings.

There are also several completed projects and reports through PWX which will give a good idea of our project process. Please feel free to review those.

Thanks!
Jamin Peck
Pure Water for the World

Technology

By Agua Para La Salud (APLS) Posted on Mon 18 Jul 2011, over 13 years ago

Thanks Jamin....Where did you upload the file. Cannot find it....Lynn

Technology

By Pure Water for the World Posted on Mon 18 Jul 2011, over 13 years ago

It is the pdf under the additional documents section.

Jamin

Technology

By Agua Para La Salud (APLS) Posted on Mon 18 Jul 2011, over 13 years ago

Gracias....Lynn

Technology

By Blue Planet Network Posted on Mon 25 Jul 2011, over 13 years ago

Could not tell the dimensions from the document (which says 'cement container'). So it is approximate? Do you have the design doc for the plastic container with size info?

Thanks,
Rajesh

Technology

By Pure Water for the World Posted on Fri 29 Jul 2011, over 13 years ago

We do not have the design document, but here are the dimensions of the filter.
Height - .77m (approx 30.5 inches), diameter - .42m (approx 16.5 inches) Weight: Empty - 3.6kg (8 lbs.), Filled – 63.5kg (140 lbs.)

Jamin