Dry season of 5 months in Mbaw community is a period of absolute scarcity in clean drinking water and rapid spread of water diseases. Lives can be saved by supplying pipe-borne water by gravity.
During dry season, almost all water sources dry off leaving people to drink with cattle on transhumance from same surface streams. Mbaw community suffer from water related diseases like diarrhoea, dysentery, filariasis, typhoid, ascaris, schistosomiasis etc. Moreover, medical treatment is expensive which only few people can afford for due to poverty. Children and women suffer greatly, trekking long distances to fetch water. We want to supply water to one of the villages with 4985 inhabitants.
Construct 5 catchment springs of 0.75 l/s, 10m3 storage tank, one inspection chamber, 1 valve control chambers, 6 stand taps, and 6 soakaway pits in reinforced concrete and stonework. Install 2.905km PVC NP6 pipeline and excavate pipeline trenches.
• Reduced incidence of water related diseases in the community by 75% by year 1 • Clean and safe drinking water available for all in the community by end of 6 months • Reduced spending on medical treatment by 75% by year 1 with increased saving
This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).
