Project Proposal on
Piped Water Supply System from River Sand Filter for One Villages along with
Health & Hygiene Education
Table of content:
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Project summary
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Background of the project
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Project objective
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Project location
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Village profile / statistics
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Justification
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Project Description
Summary:
1. Name of the Project
2. Upazila
3. District
4. Project Duratin/period
5. Implementing Agency
: Piped Water Supply System from River Sand Filter for One Villages
along with Health & Hygiene Education
: Bera
: Pabna
: 04 Months
: Dhaka Community Hospital
6. The water supply system management:
River water to be treated through “River Sand Filter Unit” and supplied to the villagers through an
overhead tank (OHT) and pipeline system. Beneficiaries would collect water from community taps
or yard faucets. After successful commissioning of the system, the system would be handed over
to a Management Committee for its operation and maintenance.
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ACTIVITIES
To establish River Sand Filter for providing arsenic, chemical and bacteria free safe water to
the community through piped water supply system at an affordable cost for drinking and
cooking purposes in Arsenic affected Village
To establish and train the community committee for functioning the River Sand Filter and
sustain it at an affordable cost for the long term period.
To monitor and test the quality of RSF time to time by the active participation of local
committee through Dhaka Community Hospital.
Distribute leaflet and arrange health and hygiene education session in the village to aware
villagers regarding arsenic contamination water.
To provide medication and skin ointment for 100 arsenicosis patient for a year to reduces
symptoms of arsenicosis among the villagers.
FINANCIAL:
1. Total Cost of the Project
2. Beneficiary Contribution
CONCLUSION
: 33,20,400 BDT Tk.
: Land for RSF
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The system can be made sustainable if the Management Committee works proactively and the
community grows a sense of ownership of the system. Technical know how, close supervision,
monitoring and cooperation of the community are also important elements to make the system
sustainable.
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2. Background
Bangladesh with an area of 1,47,570 square kilometers and more than 900 persons living in per square
kilometer, located the Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna Delta. Nature has provided Bangladesh with
30,000 Kilometers of perennial river water sources. This country is also blessed with thousands of
canals, lagoons, ponds, lakes with annual rainfall of more then 2000mm per year. Every year during
the monsoon the rivers brings fresh nutrition for the soil it floods the land. In many occasion these
rivers formed big lakes and lagoons. For century’s people of Bangladesh dependent on this water
bodies, which are part of their life and reflected in their culture.
Besides the surface water sources this land also got a very large and easily accessible ground water
sources. For thousands of years people of Bangladesh used the surface water sources from rivers,
channel, lagoons and ponds. The rainwater recharges the ponds, channel and lagoons and used for
cultivation and for daily household use including drinking and cooking. But the problem started with
contamination of surface water resulting in diarriheol disorder including cholera. With the progress of
scientific knowledge, it became gradually clear that to protect people from the epidemics of diarriheol
disorder some intervention is urgently necessary for safe drinking water. As ground water (aquifer
water) is in abundant and easily accessible, people were advised by the government as well as by
international agencies to use aquifer water in order to fight diarrihoal diseases. Since the mile of last
century hundreds and thousands of tube-wells were sunk enthusiastically by the government and
intervened bodies to promote safe water. In the beginning people were little apprehensive of these
tube-well water but gradually with large scale promotional activates helped to changed the behavioral
pattern of water use. The promotion of tube-well and the access to safe drinking water is a great
success story. By the end of 1990 within the span of 30 years we noticed that almost 95% of total
population of Bangladesh are drinking from tube-wells. It was not only declared safe but also easy to
get as most of the tube-wells are located by the side and of kitchen.
The groundwater expected by tube-wells is possible free from bacteria but it is not free from
contaminated with toxic materials and other objects that is present in the layers of the soil. In recent
years one such toxic and highly poison called ‘Arsenic’ was found to present in large scale. It is now
estimated that in Bangladesh also as high as 30% of its 10 to 12 millions tube-wells are contaminated
with expectable level of Arsenic. It is also believed that each year this percentage and also the level of
contamination are increasing. Beside health problem caused by drinking contaminated water the
country is also confronted with massive environmental problem. The various aspects of this massive
problem will be elaborated in the following chapters. It is important to realized that the arsenic
problem surfaced in the past years when we went from massive extraction of ground water ignoring
abundant of surface and rain water present and provided by mother nature.
In the past few decades, Government agencies and other development partners planed most of their
many and resources to promote groundwater extraction and paid very little attention to storage and
protect the rivers, channels, lagoons and other natural water bodies.
In this scenario Dhaka Community Hospital (DCH) is implementing various activities on arsenic
mitigation programme all over Bangladesh. As a part of the activities DCH has implemented various
safe water options like Rain Water Harvest, Piped Water Supply System from River Sand Filter, Pond
Sand Filter, Dug-well & Indara etc. in Munshigonj, Comilla, Manikgonj and Pabna.
One RSF will be installed in arsenic affected areas in Pabna, detailed are in village profile.
It is hoped that the project will be a model, which other donor/ agencies and NGOs have been
planning programmes to implement more in other part of arsenic affected areas.
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3. Objective
3.1 To supply arsenic, chemical and bacteria free safe water to the community through piped water
supply system of River Sand Filter at an affordable cost for drinking and cooking purposes in arsenic
affected village.
3.2 To provide medication and skin ointment for 100 arsenicosis patient for a year to reduces
symptoms of arsenicosis among the villagers.
4. Project Location:
Pabna District. There is a good road link with Pabna, Upazila Parishad, Union Parishod and other
villages around. The villages are located close to bank of River Jamuna in Pabna.
5. Village Profile:
RSF No – 01
Village: Jadupur
Union: Masumdia, Upazila: Bera, District: Pabna
Total number of Families
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Total number of Population
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Total number of Tube-well
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Total number of Tube-well of Contaminated with Arsenic:
Total number of Tube-well of Arsenic Free
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Total number of Tube-well of Out of Order
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Total number of Arsenic Patient
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Total number of Tap Point
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Total number of beneficiaries (families)
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150
995
105
85
19
1
100+
30
150
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6. Justification of the Project
According to ‘National Arsenic Mitigation Policy’, this village treated as hot spot regarding arsenic
contamination and also gave emphasis on ‘Surface Water’. There is no use of chemical element and
not arsenic remove in River Sand Filter (RSF), which is based on ‘Surface Water’. The community
will manage this option financially and managerially. So, the community will sustain this option in
2011 and this option will run afterwards as well as villagers will more aware regarding arsenic
problems and arsenicosis patient will get medication for a year.
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