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

Narrative

Digging and boring at this site is complete. The land is donated by Samir Mondol Nischintopur village of Swarupnagar block. Masonry job is going on. All these 10 sites are in the Gobindopur Panchayet.

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Site selection is ongoing that includes community (village) meeting, recording of the geocode of the site proposed by the community.

  • Meera Hira-Smith of Project Well
    • confidential
    Implementation Status: complete_unsuccessful Tue 03 Dec 2013, Over 10 Years ago

    Field visit again to set projector programmer

    People are not willing to use the bi-tech well. The panchayet has installed a deep tube well 3 feet away from this well and using the bi-tech well as soak pit. The people are not willing to see the ppt presentation at all. Acting ignorant to the arsenic issue.

  • Suparna Mondol of Project Well
    • confidential
    • SMS
    Implementation Status: completed Tue 08 Oct 2013, Over 10 Years ago

    Went to talk about projector programme of dugwell no- pw225 and pw226.

  • Meera Hira-Smith of Project Well
    • confidential
    Implementation Status: completed_partial Tue 24 Sep 2013, Over 10 Years ago

    Field Visit Report of Farida, Laltu, Biswajit and Shilpi

    From the beginning this well was used for other purposes due to high organic smell. The hand pump is stolen. People are using water from a near bu deep tube well installed by the panchayet after construction of the bi-tech well. Closure survey will be done but one more door-to-door campaign followed by another projector program will be done in October and November 2013 in this area where three more bi-tech wells have similar issues. The water of the deep tubewell will be tested for arsenic. If arsenic is absent in the dtw then the community will be encouraged to use the bi-tech well for irrigation purpose.

  • Impact Assessment (M&E) Phase Project completed on 31 Oct, 2012 Implementation Phase
  • Paramita Guha of Project Well
    • confidential
    • SMS
    Implementation Status: in_progress Wed 04 Jul 2012, Over 11 Years ago

    Construction is complete two months ago but still the marble plate, acknowledging sponsors, is not placed yet. Now 6 families use this water for other purposes other than drinking and cooking. photo will be uploaded soon.

  • Biswajit Karmakar of Project Well
    • confidential
    Implementation Status: completed Wed 04 Jul 2012, Over 11 Years ago

    Follow UP

    PW225- the land donated by Samir Mondal has a dugwell constructed and now is being ready for usage within few days. The marble slab is to be put up by the workers by 6th july 2012.

    • PW225.JPG
  • Implementation Phase Project started on 1 Nov, 2011 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

Digging and boring at this site is complete. The land is donated by Samir Mondol Nischintopur village of Swarupnagar block. Masonry job is going on. All these 10 sites are in the Gobindopur Panchayet.

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Site selection is ongoing that includes community (village) meeting, recording of the geocode of the site proposed by the community.

Other Issues

Unusual and unexpected issues faced during project execution

The large diameter (10”) pipes for 25 bore dugwells have arrived within 3 weeks after placing the order. The construction team is engaged in conducting site selection procedures while the awareness team is continuing with awareness programs in schools and communities in the areas where dugwells are in operation.

Impact

People Getting Safe Drinking Water: 40

According to the register record of October 2012 the number of Families=5; total consumers=19; Male=11, Female=8, children <5 = 1 and students =8

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.

Funding

funded:
$1,073

Plan/Proposal