India Projects
WaterPartners’ program in India provides safe drinking water and adequate sanitation facilities to the families living in rural and urban Indian communities in five states - Andhrah Pradesh, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, Tamil Nadu and in Delhi.
Rural projects are located in the District of Tiruchirappali in the southeastern state of Tamil Nadu and in Ganjam in the state of Orissa. The rural communities have have large populations of a 1,000 or more with houses built in tight clusters. The proximity of the dwellings in these villages makes the villages ideal candidates for tubewells capped with shared hand pumps.
Urban projects are located in the slums of Tiruchirappali, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Delhi, and Indore.
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Highlighted Project - Keelakarthigaipatti
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| Gary White, Executive Director of WaterPartners, observes pump caretakers, Dhava Mani and Lakshmi Kesavan maintaining the new pump in Keelakarthigaipatti. |
Keelakarthigaipatti is a neighborhood which is part of the block, or village, of Thottiyam in the District of Tiruchirappali in the southeastern state of Tamil Nadu. Although there are a few concrete houses, which were constructed by the Government of India under a group housing scheme for caste communities, an overwhelming majority of houses in Keelakarthigaipatti are thatched-roof and tiled.
There is one primary school, which before the project lacked a water source and sanitation facilities for teachers and students. Most of the people living in the village are landless, agricultural laborers whose livelihood depends on daily wages. The waste water and sanitation system was very poor. The system had not been constructed with proper masonry structures or drainage. Thus gray water was stagnating in the streets. Open defecation was routinely practiced by the women along the village boundaries, and the men use the nearby forest area and the hillocks. The children defecated nearby the houses and on the streets.
As a result of this project, community members in Keelakarthigaipatti now get their water from three tubewells capped by handpumps. The members of the Village Water and Sanitation Committee know how to appropriately maintain the water system to reduce breakage. However should a pump need repairs, the committee has the capacity to make those repairs. Additionally, to further prevent diarrheal diseases throughout the community, each household constructed its own lowcost latrine. Families were able to chose the type of latrine they preferred and obtained loan funds from the WSHG. The school also has its own sanitary block for children and for faculty.
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Finished Projects
In the District of Tiruchirappali in the southeastern state of Tamil Nadu, WaterPartners has completed nine rural water and sanitation projects serving over 9,000 people - Ayinapatti, Kanganipatti, Keelakarthigaipatti, Melakarthigaipatti, Melanduvlar, Mettupatti, Periyanachipatti, Ponnusangampatti (includes Melakothampatti, Morupatti, and Thevarappampatti), and Sakampatti.
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