Start Date: 2006-09-30

Completion Date: 2006-11-30

Technology Used:

This is a piped water system. Villagers aer required to purchase a water meter and household piping. The water team will construct a water tower about 11 feet in height, install a filter system, well pumps, electrical system and pipe distribution about 5,000 meters in length. The water is filtered, and may be treated with chlorine if biological contaminants are found. Water is piped to people's homes using gravity feed, and people pay for all the water they use (about 50 liters per capita per day).

Phases:

Project will be done in one phase.

Community Organization:

The community is heavily involved in site selection, signing up households who pre-pay to be hooked up, community meetings to explain system and how it works, and then provinding labor to dig and backfill pipe trenches.
Surveys have shown very high customer satisfaction with EMW projects, including very high Willingess to Pay (WTP), a key metric of long-term sustainability.
The local authorities of the Nui Thanh district and Tam Nghia commune will take part in the project and send its representatives to supervise the water system construction. Local people will contribute labor for digging the pipeline

The local people of Tam Nghia Commune and Dinh Phuoc Hamlet will:

 Be responsible for the permits and other official arrangements in order to obtain permission to build and prepare the paperwork for the contractor;
 Provide, at no cost to East Meets West, electricity and other related necessities during the construction period;
 Pay for other costs of the project which will not be paid by EMW, including digging and backfilling all the main water pipes leading from the water tower and through the village;
 Purchase a water meter, pipe and fittings leading from the main lines to their homes;
 Prepare the paperwork to apply for the tax exemption on building materials that the law allows for humanitarian projects;
 Provide a qualified site supervisor to the construction site to work on the project during the project implementation process together with the EMW supervisor;
 Locate and vet the local capable contractors and help them prepare their bids for EMW to consider.

Government Interaction:

Ancillary activities:

Two water managers will be selected to run the system. They will be given start-up training, and then annual training.

Other Issues:

The Dinh Phuoc hamlet has a population of 2,609 people in 604 households. 80% of the population are melon farmers with a monthly average income of $20 per person.