Chonyonyo Secondary School central water supply - Karagwe
A central water supply was installed for the Chonyonyo Secondary School, a girl’s boarding school that provides access to higher learning for over 1,000 students. Since access to the water source needed to be made available to the residents of the surrounding villages as well, the water supply had to be guaranteed for approx. 3,000 people.
A partial demand of water was covered by rainwater retention which uses the roof surfaces of the various school buildings. For the remaining demand, a well was installed as part of the project which ensures the daily requirement of water is met using solar pumps and purified with its own, onsite water treatment.
The next step was the installation of a distribution system of pumps and pipes which distributed the daily required water to tanks which could then be simply removed at the main road and school Campus.
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The background to the project
In the Karagwe district, in the north-western highlands of Tanzania west of Lake Victoria, there are only a few natural water sources. Water is drawn by the inhabitants mainly from small, heavily polluted water holes and has to be carried long distances on foot several times a day. An effective and locally accepted solution for a better water supply is the construction of rainwater cisterns. They can be used to collect rainwater during the rainy season to bridge the dry season. A cistern with a capacity of 20,000 litres can supply a typical family group living far from any settlement with water throughout the dry season. Since 2008, Mavuno and IngoG have already built 31 cisterns in the region, supplying more than 1,000 people with water. In addition, seven local skilled workers have been trained in the construction and maintenance of the water tanks and extensive water analyses have been carried out.