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WaterPartners is working in the Kisumu region of Kenya. Located on the equator, Kisumu’s climate is hot all year. Much of Nyanza Province, where WaterPartners is working, is semi-arid and is subject to severe drought. Most people obtain their drinking water from Lake Victoria, seasonal rivers and streams, and hand-dug wells, all of which are contaminated sources. Women and children walk up to six kilometers each day to haul water, a task that takes up to three hours. Water is not only contaminated at its source but also from the way it is transported and stored. Few households boil their water.
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Highlighted Project - Kisumu Pilot Project
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| Women and children collecting water from the traditional/ unimproved water source. |
This project is located in peri urban areas of Kisumu City in Western Kenya and includes the communities of Mbeme, Chiga, Kamrongo and Mayenya. Lack of access to safe water and proper sanitation facilities has been a major problem in these communities. As population densities continue to rise in the peri urban areas of the city, high poverty levels prevail.
Four boreholes were completed along with 1 kilometer of distribution system per site. Four reinforced concrete tanks were raised. For each of the communities, two communal water points were constructed to serve the community. Additionally, a hand pump was installed to serve approximately 300 students in each of the schools.
One of the major impediments to latrine construction in the target project community has been lack of suitable technology to address problem of loose collapsing soils. Traditionally the community has been forced to reconstruct their toilets every year after the long rains. The project has introduced a new technology of lined pits using trapezoidal blocks that checks the problem of collapsing pits. Forty pit latrines were completed to provide adequate latrines to the four communities. Eight twin pit latrines were also completed at the four schools.
Hygiene awareness was promoted at the four schools through training with the school health clubs. A remarkable hygiene practice has now been noticed as reported by patrons of the school health clubs. They wash their hands after every visit to the toilet and this is expected to help reduce the number of dysentery, cholera or typhoid cases reported.
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Finished Projects
In the Kisumu region of the Nyanza province, three peri urban water and sanitation projects have been completed serving over 34,000 people - the Kisumu Pilot Project (includes Mbeme, Chiga, Kamrongo, and Mayenya), the Kisumu Water Credit Gwako project, and the Kisumu WaterCredit SANA project (includes Asengo, Boya, Rabuor, Sigomre, and Thurdibuoro).
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