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

Narrative

May 2012: This particular site is at soyadpur village of bagjola panchayet. the land is donated by Soyad Ramjan Ali. in baduria Block of N 24 Parganas-

This new area where more than 10 sites are available because the pipeline that was constructed four years ago does not supply water and also the panchayet members complain that the number of taps is not enough for 25000 population. for every 500 people there is one outlet and in some areas people have to walk for 1 kilometer to get water from the pipeline supply. Hence they are keen to get bore-dugwells in this area.
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1. The sites of Majdia, Krishnaganj block of Nadia district have been cancelled since exposure to arsenic is low that we have come to know from the arsenic report collected from the panchayet. We are waiting for the arsenic reports from the lab in Kolkata of 2 sources that were collected by AWS.
2. Now once again the team is meeting with the block officers of Chakdah of Nadia, and Swarupnagar, Baduria and Habra II of N 24 Parganas for pipeline map to select villages where pipelines will not be given. In Swarupnagar and Baduria there are requests from villagers for more bore-dugwells mainly because the quality of water of one recently constructed bore-dugwell, PW218, is excellent.

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This site #PW233, is on the land donated by Sadhon Sarddar of Adityapur village of Kishanganj block in Nadia district. The pilot test was done on 24 Feb 2012 and sand was found within 30 feet depth. Village Meeting was also done and the site is finalized.