Sustainability

Creating and measuring long-term impact

The users would require to purchase theoline, the disinfectant, and also repair minor wear and tear. The dugwells will be visited by the field workers every month for one year to get technical and utility reports followed by inspection once or twice a year.

Other Issues

Unusual and unexpected issues faced during project execution

Research and Development is part of the project. The Arsenic level is 13 PPB (BIS stnd is 50PPB)and the date of report October 22, 2009. The Total coliform and Fecal coliform are both undetected'. Report date is Dec 7, 2009. Chlorination is done once a week.

Learnings

Knowledge of project and process for sharing

This is the second dugwell in the premises of Mr. Narayan Das. In 2007 PW54SU2 was constructed beside the adjacent school and in addition to 12 families and more than 60 consumers the school students and teachers used water for drinking from this dugwell. (web link). Unfortunately in the beginning of 2009 the school extended their building too close to the dugwell that led it to collapse and abandoned. The learning here is that in the villages houses, boundaries, religious places, clubs are erected without any technical advice of licensed engineer. There is no regulations to inform the panchayet who would send engineers as routine inspection etc as executed in the cities. It is advisable to implement some regulation, at the panchayet level, based on the size and type of construction. And also the local NGO, Aqua Welfare Society, should be informed about such development in the near future so that the site is rejected during selection procedure.

Impact

People Impacted: 6

People Getting Safe Drinking Water: 6

ONLY ONE FAMILY USES THIS WELL. The neighbors obtain water from PW110 for the quality of water is better. The school has installed a deep tubewell hence the students also do not use this source any more as they did before.

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According to the register record of July 2011 the total consumers=58; Families=12; Male=31, Female=27, children <5 = 3 and students =19 and students and teachers of the school. Need to get the detail about the consumers of the school
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Pending demographic data because this dugwell was being used initially and as on June's record the total number of users is 344 and total number of families is 23. The 344 number is of the students and teachers of the school that use the water during the school hours.

People Getting Other Benefits: 50

Public health education on arsenic health effects and personal hygiene is given to all the dugwell beneficiaries. A training program on the maintenance of the dugwells (including chlorination) is given to develop a sense of ownership and to make the program sustainable. There are five field workers working on the dugwell program who are selected from the arsenic afflicted villages. They are involved in site selection, village meetings during site selection, followed by construction of the wells and also follow up the on the technical faults of the dugwells and the number of users. The villagers are also shown VCDs on how to improve personal health and hygiene through proper practices. The office of Aqua Welfare Society is located in the village. The awareness programmer and experts of geology and technical knowhow are based in Kolkata who visit the village office and sites occasionally to create awareness amongst the user group, prospective users and students of schools. Trades like well-digging, pottery, and masonry, are required for the dugwell program and are benefiting from work generated by the project.