Self-supporting community- based mitigation program that provides arsenic safe water using modified dugwells along with public education on water related health effects.
Narrative
This site #PW208, is in Jongolpur (jodurati) village of Baduria block of N 24 Parganas district. The land is donated by Kalam Mondol to the community.
31st December: Boring and digging is complete. Housing is ongoing. Photo is pending.
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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 In fact sites in two blocks, Haringhata and Bashirhat have been replaced by sites in Baduria and Swarupnagar.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.
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Farida Bibi of Project WellImplementation Status: completed_late Wed 23 Oct 2013, About 11 Years ago
there is 23ft of water 5families 26people good water used for drinking and cooking
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Farida Bibi of Project WellImplementation Status: completed_late Thu 04 Jul 2013, Over 11 Years ago
there is bad smell in pw211
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Farida Bibi of Project WellImplementation Status: completed_late Thu 20 Dec 2012, Almost 12 Years ago
there is 14ft water 500ml theoline was given 9families 40people goo water used for drinking and cooking
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Meera Hira-Smith of Project WellImplementation Status: completed Fri 23 Mar 2012, Over 12 Years ago
Picture is uploaded of the bore-dugwell being complete and in use.
Picture is uploaded of the bore-dugwell being complete and in use.
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Meera Hira-Smith of Project WellImplementation Status: completed_late Tue 20 Mar 2012, Over 12 Years ago
Picture of the construction being complete is still pending.
Picture of the construction being complete is still pending.
- 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
This site #PW208, is in Jongolpur (jodurati) village of Baduria block of N 24 Parganas district. The land is donated by Kalam Mondol to the community.
31st December: Boring and digging is complete. Housing is ongoing. Photo is pending.
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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
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