Self-supporting community- based mitigation program that provides arsenic safe water using modified dugwells along with public education on water related health effects.

Narrative

The new site for borewell #PW206 is in Jangolpur village of Baduria block of N 24 Parganas district. This land is donated by Fokir Mondol to the community to construct the bore-dugwell.

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31st December: Boring and digging is complete. Housing is ongoing. Photo is pending.
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"After cancellation of sites and with the onset of the monsoon work was postponed. Expected to be completed by end of December.
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CANCELLED SITE AFTER PILOT TEST. "

This site #PW208, is in Bajetpur village of Baduria block of N 24 Parganas district.
This land is donated by Sabir Ali Molla to the community to construct the bore-dugwell.

This year there is a delay in the construction due to the following reasons:
1. during april and may no village meetings could be held because of assembly election in the state election;
2. many sites were selected and village meetings were held several months before the construction. Many sites were cancelled because of pipelines that the local panchayet came to know about later. In fact sites in two blocks, Haringhata and Bashirhat have been replaced by sites in Baduria and Swarupnagar.
3. During pilot tests due to non availability of water bearing sand layer and family or neigborly disputes by now 22 sites been cancelled.
4. At every new site village meetings are being held that leads to delay too.

  • Laltu Mirza of Project Well
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    • SMS
    Implementation Status: completed_late Fri 25 Oct 2013, Over 10 Years ago

    visit today.

  • Laltu Mirza of Project Well
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    • SMS
    Implementation Status: completed Tue 30 Oct 2012, Over 11 Years ago

    there is 13 ft of water. 500ml theoline was given.18 families 76 people. good water used for drinking and cooking.

  • Safikul Molla of Project Well
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    • SMS
    Implementation Status: completed Tue 16 Oct 2012, Over 11 Years ago

    Fakir Mondol is the owner. The water is good and used by 55 people. Wife of Fokir Mondol is putting a padlock on the handpump because her compound gets flooded. The neighbors are complaining so staff of AWS will talk to Mrs Mondol to solve the problem. Perhaps a proper drainage needs to be done.

  • Impact Assessment (M&E) Phase Project completed on 31 Dec, 2011 Implementation Phase
  • Implementation Phase Project started on 30 Nov, 2010 Preparation Phase

Self-supporting community- based mitigation program that provides arsenic safe water using modified dugwells along with public education on water related health effects.

Narrative

The new site for borewell #PW206 is in Jangolpur village of Baduria block of N 24 Parganas district. This land is donated by Fokir Mondol to the community to construct the bore-dugwell.

__________________________
31st December: Boring and digging is complete. Housing is ongoing. Photo is pending.
___________________________
"After cancellation of sites and with the onset of the monsoon work was postponed. Expected to be completed by end of December.
____________________
CANCELLED SITE AFTER PILOT TEST. "

This site #PW208, is in Bajetpur village of Baduria block of N 24 Parganas district.
This land is donated by Sabir Ali Molla to the community to construct the bore-dugwell.

This year there is a delay in the construction due to the following reasons:
1. during april and may no village meetings could be held because of assembly election in the state election;
2. many sites were selected and village meetings were held several months before the construction. Many sites were cancelled because of pipelines that the local panchayet came to know about later. In fact sites in two blocks, Haringhata and Bashirhat have been replaced by sites in Baduria and Swarupnagar.
3. During pilot tests due to non availability of water bearing sand layer and family or neigborly disputes by now 22 sites been cancelled.
4. At every new site village meetings are being held that leads to delay too.

Learnings

Knowledge of project and process for sharing

Construction of bore-dugwell, boring and digging, should complete before the monsoon or rainy season. We have learnt that even after boring is completed, digging cannot be done when the water table is high without using heavy duty water pump. However, low ordinary pump is used when the water to be pumped out is maximum 4 feet in the dugwell.

Pilot testing should be done as soon as the sites are selected in the month of November - January. so that there will be time to finish digging before onset of the monsoon if the site gets cancelled.

Impact

People Getting Safe Drinking Water: 80

Registers will be created as soon as the community starts using the water from this bore-dugwell.

Maintenance/Operating Costs Annual, in US$: $40

Creating and measuring long-term impact

Implementer: Project Well & Aqua Welfare Society

Aqua Welfare Society (AWS) is the partner NGO of Project Well. Their office is based in North 24 Parganas. The seven honorary board members are located in Kolkata. New field workers have been engaged mainly for the surveillance program. There is one project manager, one technical manager, one awareness program manager, two technical assistants, one maintenance assistant, one assistant for data entry, one account assistant and three field workers; three more field workers will be hired. All field staff are constantly interacting with the villagers and beneficiaries, training the users on well maintenance, organizing village meetings and health meetings. The project manager visits the villages three to four times a week and works alongside the field workers, meeting with government officials and villagers, selecting sites, coordinating well construction, sending reports to Project Well and meeting with the members AWS to keep the projects running. The awareness programmer is in charge of conducting public education programs in the communities and educational institutions, which is the other component that makes our program sustainable.

Funding

funded:
$1,160

Plan/Proposal