plan 183“Give me a drop water initiative” - water harvesting at the household level

Summary

The objective of this project is to meet the community identified need for clean and accessible water. Emaiyian Maasai Women group from, Transmara district of Kenya on behalf of the community requested us as an organization to help them have clean water.

Background

Water sustains all life. Her songs begin in the tiniest of raindrops, transform to flowing rivers, travel to majestic oceans and thundering clouds, and back to earth to begin again. When water is threatened, all living things are threatened.
Indigenous Declaration on water, July 8, 2001

The women have to wait for hours for the cows to water first they are not allowed to collect water as form 9am up to the time all the animals have had enough.

Water is life but for Nomadic and Agro Pastoralist of Kenya, it a resource that has seen death in their own door steps. Most of the time it is not available and where available is contaminated , and many at times too is a decision who has priority to the resource and here it is the livestock. These communities .have faced many problems due to lack of this basic human right’s need. Conflict within watering point for both livestock and human has become a daily routine for the communities. The resources are becoming more and more scars as we face climatical changes. Frequent droughts and lack of harvesting skills when in comes to rain water harvesting during heavy rains that come with floods has continued to be another greater challenge. Many times women have to live with long hours of looking for water and more so waiting at watering points for livestock to have water first. This increases the work lord and impacts of the health of the women and family as a whole. The long waits have cause conflict in families as demand for women to deliver on time is never met.

Heath for the communities and especially women and children is of great concern and many of them do not have access to clean water. The few water sources like this seen below are over used and used by almost everything and everybody as they are not protected.

Location

Rift Valley Province, Kilgoris-Trans Mara, Kenya

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    Technologies Proposed

    Dinah Chienjo of Oywa 'A' Solar Support Group

    1.Please elaborate on the technology you are proposing to use. 2.What methods are you going to use to sanitize the water? It seams like you are going to protect communal water points like dams etc. 3.Explain clearly the rain water harvesting technology proposed ie the homestead tanks proposed. What will their capacity hold and how many are...

    1.Please elaborate on the technology you are proposing to use.
    2.What methods are you going to use to sanitize the water? It seams like you are going to protect communal water points like dams etc.
    3.Explain clearly the rain water harvesting technology proposed ie the homestead tanks proposed. What will their capacity hold and how many are you going to constract?
    4. Describe the the natural filter system you are going to use.

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    Project specifics

    Annette Fay of Blue Planet Network

    Dear IIN, Thank you for your application and participating in PWX! From your proposal it sounds like you are very familiar with this community (the Emaiyian Maasai?) and their needs. Can you please give a more detailed explanation of what you are going to build in this community? Also, how long will the project take to complete? It lo...

    Dear IIN,

    Thank you for your application and participating in PWX! From your proposal it sounds like you are very familiar with this community (the Emaiyian Maasai?) and their needs.

    Can you please give a more detailed explanation of what you are going to build in this community?

    Also, how long will the project take to complete? It looks like 3 days on your proposal now.

    -Annette

    • Lucy Mulenkei of African Indigenous Women's Organization

      Dear Annette we have already built a water tank water trough for the cattle and a water fetching point for the whole community. Now by this proposal that we have submitted we want to train the community on harvesting water at household level. This will reduce the traffic and stress of the collection water from the main water source. ...

      Dear Annette

      we have already built a water tank water trough for the cattle and a water fetching point for the whole community. Now by this proposal that we have submitted we want to train the community on harvesting water at household level.
      This will reduce the traffic and stress of the collection water from the main water source. It will also reduce the time for the women to go to the water collection point. They can collect in their own houses. The women are lucky in that in this area rain is frequent and they do get plenty of rains every now and then.

      The training will last for 3 days.

      Thank you,
      Yvonne and Georgina

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    Elaboration of capacity building

    Gemma Bulos of Global Women's Water Initiative

    Ladies! Thanks for your proposal submission. It would be valuable if you could elaborate on what "capacity building" activities and training means for your organization and for this community. I'm sure you know what it means but to inform others more explicitly will not only strengthen your proposal but hopefully help others to understa...

    Ladies!
    Thanks for your proposal submission.
    It would be valuable if you could elaborate on what "capacity building" activities and training means for your organization and for this community. I'm sure you know what it means but to inform others more explicitly will not only strengthen your proposal but hopefully help others to understand your approach and possibly adapt it elsewhere where it might be appropriate (especially in the case of indigenous, nomadic communities).
    Keep up the great work!
    Mariah

    • Lucy Mulenkei of African Indigenous Women's Organization

    • Lucy Mulenkei of African Indigenous Women's Organization

      Thanks Mariah, By capacity building we mean that we will train the community members on how to put up gutters and how to harvest rain water. we also want to train them on how to put up small homestead tanks so that they can have easy access to clean water. Regards, Yvonne and Georgina

      Thanks Mariah,

      By capacity building we mean that we will train the community members on how to put up gutters and how to harvest rain water. we also want to train them on how to put up small homestead tanks so that they can have easy access to clean water.

      Regards,
      Yvonne and Georgina

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    Rainwater harvesting?

    Gemma Bulos of Global Women's Water Initiative

    IIN ladies, Will there be any training on rainwater harvesting with the community members or will the technical training be focused only on the spring protection system? I remember mention while talking in person of including rainwater harvesting in the community training but I don't see it clearly here in the proposal? Thanks! Mariah

    IIN ladies,
    Will there be any training on rainwater harvesting with the community members or will the technical training be focused only on the spring protection system? I remember mention while talking in person of including rainwater harvesting in the community training but I don't see it clearly here in the proposal?
    Thanks!
    Mariah

    • Lucy Mulenkei of African Indigenous Women's Organization

    • Lucy Mulenkei of African Indigenous Women's Organization

      Hi, The training on rain water harvesting will be for the community members but not on the spring protection system since we have already protected the spring. Yvonne and Georgina

      Hi,

      The training on rain water harvesting will be for the community members but not on the spring protection system since we have already protected the spring.

      Yvonne and Georgina