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

Narrative

Once again this site for PW211 was cancelled and the new site is donated by Julfikar Mondol of Hyderpur (bagjola) village of Baduria block of N 24 Parganas.
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31st December: Boring and digging is complete. Housing is ongoing. Photo is pending.
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This site #PW212 is in Bajetpur of village of Baduria block of N 24 Parganas district. Narayan Mondol donated this site for the community.

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 In fact sites in two blocks, Haringhata and Bashirhat have been replaced by sites in Baduria and Swarupnagar.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.

  • Suparna Mondol of Project Well
    • confidential
    • SMS
    Implementation Status: completed_late Wed 18 Sep 2013, About 11 Years ago

    We went to inspect the dugwell no- pw-212.

  • Farida Bibi of Project Well
    • confidential
    • SMS
    Implementation Status: completed_late Thu 05 Sep 2013, About 11 Years ago

    turbid and organic smell in water

  • Farida Bibi of Project Well
    • confidential
    • SMS
    Implementation Status: completed_late Tue 09 Jul 2013, Over 11 Years ago

    pw212 organic smell in water

  • Suparna Mondol of Project Well
    • confidential
    • SMS
    Implementation Status: completed_late Tue 12 Feb 2013, Over 11 Years ago

    The health meeting has been finished.

  • Suparna Mondol of Project Well
    • confidential
    • SMS
    Implementation Status: completed_late Tue 12 Feb 2013, Over 11 Years ago

    The health meeting has been finished. F-4, ch-3.

  • Farida Bibi of Project Well
    • confidential
    • SMS
    Implementation Status: completed_late Thu 17 Jan 2013, Almost 12 Years ago

    there is 14ft of water 500 ml theoline 10 families 45 people good water used for drinking and cooking

  • Farida Bibi of Project Well
    • confidential
    • SMS
    Implementation Status: completed_late Thu 06 Dec 2012, Almost 12 Years ago

    there is 15ft water 500ml theoline was given 8families 40people good water used for drinking and cooking and water collcet

  • Farida Bibi of Project Well
    • confidential
    • SMS
    Implementation Status: in_progress Tue 30 Oct 2012, About 12 Years ago

    there is 15 ft of water. 500ml theoline was given. 8 families 32 people. good water used for drinkig and cooking.

  • Meera Hira-Smith of Project Well
    • confidential
    Implementation Status: completed_late Tue 20 Mar 2012, Over 12 Years ago

    construction is complete

    construction is complete

  • Farida Bibi of Project Well
    • confidential
    • SMS
    Implementation Status: in_progress Mon 19 Mar 2012, Over 12 Years ago

    good water.

  • 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

Once again this site for PW211 was cancelled and the new site is donated by Julfikar Mondol of Hyderpur (bagjola) village of Baduria block of N 24 Parganas.
_________________________
31st December: Boring and digging is complete. Housing is ongoing. Photo is pending.
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This site #PW212 is in Bajetpur of village of Baduria block of N 24 Parganas district. Narayan Mondol donated this site for the community.

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: 45

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:
$1,174

Plan/Proposal