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Rain Water Harvesting

Rain Water Harvesting . A traditional and green system to preserve the world water resources. Difficult access to safe water in Katmandou.

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Rain Water Harvesting

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  1. Rain Water Harvesting A traditional and green system to preserve the world water resources

  2. Difficult access to safe water in Katmandou • Access to safe water has become a real problem: women make kilometres everyday to fetch safe water or queue up to get it at some spring and pay a high price for it

  3. Women walks kilometres to fetch water in Nepal

  4. Children walk also far away to bring water at home

  5. People queue up and pay to buy water

  6. Situation of water reserve in Katmandou valley • The water comes from water bed which level is going down dangerously every year; • Wells are also drying out. • Water reserves are not renewable and consummation is higher than supplies.

  7. Built in 1993, this source is now dry

  8. Wells are also drying out

  9. Environmental solution • In 2010, Karuna-Shechen has started a partnership with the Indian association “Barefoot College” and its Director, Bunker Roy. • a rain water harvesting system ( with underground tank reserve) has been built during the summer of 2011 to supply a school situated an hour away from Katmandou. • This process is very safe, the water is filter( natural filter with sand+ ashes and gravels)

  10. development of rain water harvesting projects • Karuna-Shechen is going to develop the rain water harvesting system in our bamboo schools and in other places where it could be installed like in Upper Humla government school and hostel that we sustain, situated at 3500m high, where we are doubling the number of student in 2012 with the partnership of Rotary of Resnais in Belgium

  11. Sumara school: rain water harvesting system example • The school welcome 125 children and some teachers. • Barefoot College gave its technical sustain to help a nepali team to built an underground tank of 70.000l which will supplies the school in safe water.

  12. Sumara School

  13. Parents of students dig the whole for the tank( for free)

  14. Parents of students dig the whole for the tank( for free)

  15. Parents of students dig the whole for the tank( for free)

  16. Underground water tank

  17. The school is remote

  18. women carry the bricks to the tank

  19. Pavement of the tank with bricks and cement

  20. same

  21. Double tank in case of earthquake

  22. Director of program visiting the site

  23. Building the top roof

  24. Finishing the top roof

  25. Hand pumpprovidingsafe water to 122 studentsfrom underground water tank completed and wellcover( April 16th. 2012) • SudarsonKarki, our local partnerwhotook care of the whole construction using • The pump.

  26. Safer water thanfilter water ! • Sumaragovernmentschool in Banepa District, has orderanalysisfrom a specializedlaboratory in Katmandou to be sure that the childrenwill have safe water. • The resultsproofed to be a safer water than the one sold in Nepal as safe water frombottles. • Karuna-Shechen Field Operations Director has been able to check thoseanalysis.

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