Report: D5W3: Lauragi Well

Funded by Blue Planet Network, The Samburu Project will drill and install a shallow well equipped with a handpump in the Lauragi community.

We surveyed 3 sites in this community before finding a viable location.

This community was chosen because of its high population, the distance they typically travel for water (10 km each way) and the fact that women and children in this community spend most of their day every day looking for water. The community currently takes water from TSP's Lbaa Onyokie 2 Well.

The water will be used for domestic purposes and livestock. Waterborne disease is likely to decrease significantly. Women will have enough time to participate in income-generating activities. The community hopes to increase their livelihoods through farming.

Hydrogeologist Joseph Kariuki recommends that this well be drilled 70 meters deep.

We had a good experience working with the Lauragi community during site selection.

A well committee has been formed. The committee will establish a community fund to maintain the well and communicate with TSP when issues arise. A community fund will be established once the well is drilled and completed in August 2011.

In our initial application we intended to drill two wells in the Nagoroworu community. After spending 1.5 days surveying 11 potential sites, Kariuki concluded that a shallow well was not viable in the Nagoroworu community. It is always a great disappointment to TSP and the community when this happens.

The terrain is bad, therefore the community will have to work very hard to prepare a road for the drilling rig to pass through.

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