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Rotary club of Bungoma Central wishes to undertake a drilling a 150 meters deep weel at Namusimbi village to benefit families within who have no access to safe and clean water. Namusimbi lies on the boundary of three areas of administrative and political jurisdiction, thus: Chwele, Kabuchai and Toloso locations (as classified by the National Adminstrative units). Politically, part of Namusimbi is in Namwela ward of Sirisia constituency and another section is in Kabuchai-Chwele ward of Kabuchai constituency. Namusimbi has a total of 500 households that translates to a total of 3,000+ persons.
Incorporating water improvements into economic development is necessary to end the severe problems caused by water stress and to improve public health and advance economic stability of rural communities.
Stress emanating from inadequate access to safe water in sub-Saharan Africa is huge. Of course, there are a broad range of social, economic and environmental problems caused by unmet water needs. This in effect leads to increasing the risk of water-borne diseases such as cholera. While water stress occurs throughout the world, no region has been more affected than sub-Saharan Africa.
The UN Environment Program (UNEP) compares water scarcity and quality today with a projection for the future: Currently, access to safe water in sub-Saharan Africa is worse than any other area on the continent. UNEP had projected that by this year 2025, as many as 25 African nations -- roughly half of the continent - were likely to suffer from a greater combination of increased water scarcity the resultant stress.
Namusimbi village is one of those many in Kenya that make the country no meet the UN's Millennium Development Goals (ensure environmental sustainability, combat malaria, improve maternal health, reduce child mortality, eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, etc). Valuable amounts of time are spent on fetching water which compromises human efficiency in other sectors.
The project will encompass several stages that include:
a) Hydrogeological survey of the project site.
b) Acquisition of the Water Resources Management Authority (WARMA) and the National Environmental Impact Assessment (NEMA) permits.
c) Drilling a 150 meters deep borehole with finished internal diameter 8" to the required maximum depth.
d) Test Pumping for 24 hours, draw-down, yield recovery and data analysis.
e) Chemical analysis of water sample
f) Installation of plain steel 6" (152mm) 10.0 10,000 100,000
g) Installation of slotted steel casings 6" (152mm)
h) Installation of gravel pack (2-4mm) (not laterite) to at least 3m above top screen.
i) Borehole development by airlifting and/or surging for minimum of 4hrs, with an estimate of discharge and static water level measurement
j) Installation of surface casing without retrieval
k) Solar structure civil works and welding
l) Electrical commissioning and solar panels termination
m) Erection of a water tower
n) Mounting the water tank and plumbing works
o) Training of the project committee
p) Official commissioning of the project/public launch.
q) Continuous monitoring and evaluation and reporting
The envisioned project and related activities tie into 4/7 of Rotary International's thematic areas of focus, i.e:
• Access to water and sanitation and sanitation services
• Economic and community development of communities
• Promoting peace and preventing conflict.
• Preventing disease.
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