Self-supporting community- based mitigation program that provides arsenic safe water using modified dugwells along with public education on water related health effects.
Narrative
This dugwell PW102CGT1 is located at latitude 22.94857 and longitude 88.83471
in the village Goyalbathan at the Jhowdanga Panchayet in Gaighata. Poritosh Tarafdar donated the site for the community.
Sustainability
Creating and measuring long-term impact
The users would require to purchase theoline, the disinfectant, and also repair minor wear and tear. The dugwells will be visited by the field workers every month for one year to get technical and utility reports followed by inspection once or twice a year.
Other Issues
Unusual and unexpected issues faced during project execution
Research and Development is part of the project. The Arsenic level is 18 PPB (BIS stnd is 50PPB)and the date of report October 22, 2009. The Total coliform is 128 CFU/100ml and Fecal coliform is 23 CFU/100ml. Report date is Dec 7, 2009. Chlorination is done once a week.
Impact
People Getting Safe Drinking Water: 7
All seven are male members. Need to find out more in detail by sending a senior field worker. Perhaps the data entry is not complete. refer below for historical data.
Pending demographic data because this dugwell was being used initially and as on June's record the total number of users is 79 and total number of families is 15.
People Getting Other Benefits: 50
Public health education on arsenic health effects and personal hygiene is given to all the dugwell beneficiaries. A training program on the maintenance of the dugwells (including chlorination) is given to develop a sense of ownership and to make the program sustainable. There are five field workers working on the dugwell program who are selected from the arsenic afflicted villages. They are involved in site selection, village meetings during site selection, followed by construction of the wells and also follow up the on the technical faults of the dugwells and the number of users. The villagers are also shown VCDs on how to improve personal health and hygiene through proper practices. The office of Aqua Welfare Society is located in the village. The awareness programmer and experts of geology and technical knowhow are based in Kolkata who visit the village office and sites occasionally to create awareness amongst the user group, prospective users and students of schools. Trades like well-digging, pottery, and masonry, are required for the dugwell program and are benefiting from work generated by the project.
