‘Just add water’ How access to clean water transforms

communities.

“So here it is, my Christmas Cake in a bag ready for you to get baking.”

Just add water?

Just add water?

"I've used only the best ingredients to create my perfect Yorkshire pudding mix. Now it's over to you Just add water and whisk to create a smooth batter and bake in the oven for irresistible Yorkshire puddings just the way you like them "

Project comparison Kilolo Pawaga

Design population 13,000 22,500

Cost €600,645 €1,212,189

Cost per person €46 €54

Funders EC 75% Tearfund UK Tear Australia CED St Michael’s Chester Square

EC 75% Tearfund UK Tear Australia CED Wilmslow Wells for Africa

Project comparison

Kilolo Pawaga

Partners Diocese of Ruaha Diocese of Ruaha

Other key personnel District Water Department Technicians

District Water Department Technicians

Community Involvement Trench digging, help with transporting materials, winning local materials

Trench digging, help with transporting materials, winning local materials

Distance from Iringa 40km 70km

Type of supply Gravity pipeline Gravity pipeline

Sanitation Pit latrine slabs Pit latrine slabs

Health and Hygiene Education

Seminar programme Seminar programme

Project comparison

Kilolo Pawaga

Topography Southern Highlands, 1600 – 1700m asl

Rift Valley, 800m asl

Rainfall 1000 – 1600mm pa 700 – 800mm pa Semi-arid

Water source Springs at approx 2000m Little Ruaha River

Treatment None required Coagulation, sedimentation, filtration, chlorination

Kilolo springs

Pawaga – Little Ruaha River

Project comparison

Kilolo Pawaga

Topography Southern Highlands, 1600 – 1700m asl

Rift Valley, 800m asl

Rainfall 1000 – 1600mm pa 700 – 800mm pa Semi-arid

Water source Springs at approx 2000m Little Ruaha River

Treatment None required Coagulation, sedimentation, filtration, chlorination

Luganga

45 cu.m. Storage Tank on 6m. Raiser

Itunuda - Utilise existing 90 cu.m. tank

Mkombilrnga

Utilise existing 90 cu.m. Storage Tank

Little Ruaha River

23,000m 10” and 8” dia pipe

Future extension to Isele,

Kinyika and Kisanga

Izazi and Mnadani

Future extension To Makuka

Mboliboli

Kimande Mbuyuni

90 cu.m. Storage Tank

90 cu.m. Storage Tank for Mbuyuni/Kimande/Itunundu

45 cu.m. Storage Tank

Ilolompya

Magozi

Little Ruaha River

Road to Iringa

Gravity Intake

Water Treatment Works

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PAWAGA SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME

Schematic Diagram of Water Supply System

K2

Before...

“We were not sleeping because of water; all our thoughts were on water not other things.”

Before...

“We were afraid to let our children collect water alone.”

Before...

“Sometimes my children were going to school hungry because I was in the valley finding water”

Before...

“We were taught to boil water but we had no firewood”

(Pawaga)

Before...

“It was tedious work to collect one bucket of water in 3 hours.”

Christine Kalipamwambu, Diocesan Development Officer

“This is the hardest project I have ever worked on!”

After......(Kilolo)

“The project is named ‘Redeemer’, as it has saved community members from all the problems they were facing from water scarcity.”

After.....(Kilolo)

“Tiredness has been reduced now we are relieved of the water fetching burden.”

After.....(Kilolo)

“My family are now much healthier.....”

After.....(Kilolo)

“When we are at the farm we are not thinking of coming home to fetch water; we can stay there to accomplish our farm activities.”

After.....(Kilolo)

“Available water has created an environment for our clothes to be clean all the time.”

After......(Pawaga)

“Thank you......for making life easier!”

After......(Pawaga)

“The project ...has stopped our worries about fetching water from the river.”

After......(Pawaga)

“The children now have more energy and are eager to learn.”

After......(Pawaga)

“No-one has been ill this rainy season.”

After......(Pawaga)

“This has brought a great difference in (school) attendance.”

After......(Kilolo)

“The water project has brought some kind of revolution – the life we live now is very different from the life we used to live.”