Project Status



Project Type:  Borehole Well and Hand Pump

Program: Wells for Kenya

Impact: 500 Served

Project Phase:  In Service - Dec 2011

Functionality Status:  Functional

Last Checkup: 05/10/2023

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Community Profile

TWP is delighted to be supporting Bridge Water Project as they work with the community on this project. Bridge Waer Project have sent us this initial report, and what follows is direct from them, edited a little for clarity: 

The proposed project is with Emayungu community.  The environment of this community is very dry in dry seasons. Being a community of many people, the individuals of this community really suffer since water is fetched very far. The real source of this community a river that is contaminated with dirt and running waste from the bush. Most diseases that are encountered in this community are typhoid and cholera among children.

The community will greatly be helped if water will be drilled to them.

CURRENT WATER SOURCE

The Emayungu Community currently accesses water from a big river called Emayungu.The water from the river is turbid hence not clean at all. Due to this there has been a problem of cholera, typhoid and cracks on the skin of the people who consume the water. 

POPULATION

The community has a population of 500-1000 people. The water will also serve Emayungu Church of God which has a congregation of 300.

HYGIENE AND SANITATION

The hygiene and sanitation condition is not bad in this community since at least every home has a hygiene facility like toilet, bathrooms and dish racks. Still the community needs to be taught more on hygiene and sanitation.

 

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Project Type

Borehole and Hand Pump

Girls and women walk long distances for water when safe water is very often right under their feet! Underground rivers, called aquifers, often contain a constant supply of safe water – but you have to get to it. No matter what machine or piece of equipment is used, all drilling is aiming for a borehole that reaches into an aquifer. If the aquifer has water - and after the well is developed - we are able to pull water to the surface utilizing a hand-pump. If all goes as planned, the community is left with a safe, closed water source providing around 5 gallons of water a minute through a hand-pump.