Water Project
WATER PROJECT
Safe Water Project will free many Ugandan communities from waterborne disease and poverty.
Why water?
Clean water is key to ending poverty, but nearly 1 in 5 people across Uganda faces severe water shortages and half must walk more than 30 minutes to reach a protected water source.
The Water Crisis In Uganda Water is a necessity and it’s safe to say that all living things cannot survive without it, and that includes both human beings and animals, birds too. However, despite the continuous advancements in science and technology, the percentage of people who are unable to have access to clean water is still high, and that is approximately 40%, worldwide. About 8 million Ugandans are faced with water scarcity as they cannot access clean and safe water for both drinking and domestic use.
We engage in building New borehole wells and rehabilitations of the old ones, providing rainwater collections systems to need families and schools as well as hyygiene and sanitation solutions.
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Water Project The Water Crisis In Uganda Water is a necessity and it’s safe to say that all living things cannot survive without it
The above statement includes both human beings and animals, birds too. However, despite the continuous advancements in science and technology, the percentage of people who are unable to have access to clean water is still high, and that is approximately 40%, worldwide. About 8 million Ugandans are faced with water scarcity as they cannot access clean and safe water for both drinking and domestic use.
The Current State The continuous decline in economic growth has strained the land and other resources in Uganda, enormously. As a result, a very small number of people, approximately 19% of the total population, can only rely on ponds, streams and unprotected hand-dug wells as sources of water for drinking. Due to the lack of, or limited toilets and bathrooms in most rural areas, the sources of water mentioned above are constantly contaminated with human wastes, soil sediments, mud, and fertilizers, thereby making the water unsafe and unhealthy for drinking.
In addition, the lack of adequate filtration systems and the loss of vegetation, which acts as a natural filtration system, has resulted in various health problems. Children aged 5 years and below are constantly succumbing to diarrhea as a result of drinking dirty water. This has forced many people to move for long distances for over 30 minutes, in search for clean water, thus limiting their time to work, maintain the household and take care of their children.
Initiatives For A Better Future Many initiatives have been projected towards addressing the water crisis and the problems associated with it. For instance, in 2013, the Water Organization launched its Water Credit Solution, where they disbursed loans of approximately $13 million, in a bid to create long term solutions to the water crisis. Over 276,000 people benefited from this initiative.
The Uganda Women’s Water Initiative was also launched and over 300 women in Gomba, Uganda, were trained to build rainwater harvesting tanks and biosand filters, in order to transform contaminated water into clean and drinkable water for school going children. The program was being funded by Aveda and GreenGrants.
Thanks to this program, school children are safer from typhoid and diarrhea which would rather keep them sick and out of school.
In the same spirit, the Ntale organization is launching a program to promote proper sanitation in selected rural areas all over the country through construction of boreholes and water taps to ensure supply of clean water, treatment of water in already existing sources in order to eradicate the problem of contamination, as well as construction of toilets and bathrooms so as to promote proper human waste management.
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