Summary

The Program aims to collect rain water and use it for drinking purposes. Enhance the community awareness on safe drinking water and sanitation. The lesson learnt form the program will disseminate to the other community members and to the neighboring villa

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Background

Foundation has decided to select the area to work, since this is the most underdeveloped area with very few NGO’s working for the community. The area has very large populations, which are underdeveloped and meet very few opportunities The gross area of the Taluk is 25km and there are 212,750 people. In this area, the infrastructure is very poor, the services do not reach the communities, children dropout rate is very high, health care services are bad, water is not potable, and all the communities’ members suffer from water related diseases because of the very high fluoride content in the drinking water. The high content of fluorine in the water leads to the disease like cancer, kidney failure, deformation of bone, yellow tooth’s and neurological problems, Alzheimer’s disease and cardiovascular failure (*sourced from WHO). The children suffer from malnutrition, while women are anemic and are prone to life threatening diseases, tuberculosis, cancer, chikungunya, kidney failure, diabetes, malaria, cholera, typhoid and arthritis. The sanitation and toilets are non-existent, and the open defecation is common.

Public transportation is a distant dream; private transportation is very few and very expensive. During the rainy season, the area is cut off from the rest of the area, and the women find it difficult to go to the hospitals. Commuting between villages and schools is a major issue since it is one of the major reason why the drop out are very high in this area.

Most of the villages have schools, but are all primary schools, only up till 5th grade. After graduating from the primary school, the children are discouraged to go on to the next school level because they do not have the means of transportation and the schools are far from the village.

Water Facility in the area at present:-
• There are six water tanks are build by panchayat and there are four bore holes in the village, out of these four bore holes only two are working and gives water at the intervals of 48 hours or more.
• Community members gets water in 3-4 days (twice in a week ) and that is only for one or half an hour, They are not getting sufficient water. Water cannot be stored for two three days as it starts smelling, it contains high content of fluoride.
• Water table is depleting every year and at present it is 1200 feet, they cannot take out more water from the ground, after pumping one hour they don’t get water and have to turn off the motor, the community have to wait for several hours to get back water from the ground.
• Community complaints about drainage system no rain water harvesting facility is available at this time.
• In nearby villages the Gram panchayat purchase water from other village which is 4km away from Malur Panchayat, there is no water available as ground water. In 3-4 days water is being brought to the village.
• No safe drinking water available, no rain water harvesting structure so far in the village.

Sanitation facility and behavior practices:

• Home hygiene is poor no toilets at all only 2 or three members in a village build toilet
in their house but they are not using due to lack of water.
• Virtually no drainage system,
• All waste water comes in the street, creating conducive environment for the spread
of vector borne diseases.
• All Community level sanitation practices are poor and people are dumping their garbage on the street, there is no proper drainage system and garbage collection or dumping place.
• Hand washing practice is not practice in the community and as well as in the schools.

A. Health Status.
• Most disease recorded in the last one year is malaria, dengue, fever, chicken guinea, stomach ache and TB, in Neelakanta Agrahara village whole village was affected by chicken guinea three years ago and still they are suffering with joint pain.
• Institutional deliveries are from 80 to 90 %, whereas less than 10 % are home deliveries.
• One of the major reasons of institutional deliveries is awareness regarding reproductive and child health among general populations and they consider importance of delivery by skilled health workers.
• Malnutrition was assessed in two categories, one among the children and the second among women of reproductive age. The general malnutrition among the children in areas is up to 50% and if we come to the extreme malnutrition then almost 25 % children are affected. This finding was established as per the discussion with the ANM and on the basis of on the spot observation.
• Routine immunization is taking place in the village, people are aware about immunization,

Other issue:
• Most of the men and youth are working as laborers in bricks industry, agricultural labors, Nilgiri forest workers and in town as labor few goes to the companies for packing
(Companies stuffs) Women are doing the household routines and lacking other skills to generate income. Women have to wait for 4-5 hours daily to get water; there is no fix day or time for water supply, almost all villages purchase water from other villages.

Area have an average rainfall of 1246 .1 m which is slightly below the district’s average rainfall. April, June and September are the monsoon months in the area. (May month area have sudden showers) On an average rainfall of the taluk receives rains on 58 days in a year.
Project aims to harvest the precious rain water for drinking purpose and use the waiting time for productive work.

The project will leads to the following impacts-

 Potable water at door step
 Portable water with no contamination
 Reduce the cost for getting water
 Save time
 lessening of water born diseases
 Water availability through out the year
 Reduction in health expenses
 Clean environment
 Improvement in health standard
 No malnutrition
 Community aware about safe drinking water and natural resource management.
 Will improve the liaison and co-operation in the villages

How to measure –

o Number of people access the quality of water
o Amount of water supply to the households
o Number of children attending schools
o Amount of additional income generated due to an effectiveness of time spent for water.
o Ratio differences of diseases level.
o Cost reduction for medical expenses.

Location

Malur town, Kolar district,karnataka state, India

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