An approach to Safe, Affordable Drinking Water

for water scarcity regions

Rain Water Harvesting

19th February, 2013

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It is daily chore for women in scarcity areas, who

walk miles for hours for water!

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Transported as well……

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Options - open Bawari, Wells/hand pumps/ PWS

Access is the key challenge beside the quality

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Key contaminants : fluoride in ground water or

microbial in surface!

Bacteria17%

Chemical 83%

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Western region of country worst affected by

both Chemical & microbial contamination

Ground water very deep & saline forcing rain water as viable option

Open ponds contaminated

Hydro-geothermo regime

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Traditionally people have adopted………

Tankas

Bawari (Pond)

• HH structures found most appropriate

• Affordability ?

• No institutional mechanism to support

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Rain Water Harvesting – a case for water credit

Status

Installed ~ 970 household and 40 community kunds in 55 villages

Kunds to provide potable water to ~16,750 villagers

Completed construction / design improvements

Implemented financial product for households

Introduced quality assurance program

Objective: Develop and implement improved approaches to rainwater harvesting through construction optimization, quality assurance and new funding products for sustainability and scale-up

Members of household with newly constructed kund

Safe Water Network site visit working on design improvements with partners

Community mobilization and construction

Quality assurance and policy white paper

Quality assurance, health impacts & policy

Microfinance funding product

Engineering & design

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Findings of Cash flow study

Annual Household ExpenditureSavings by Institutions

Source of Credit

Interest Rate per Month

Microfinance Product

Products JL10 (Cistern 1000 L capacity) JL15 (Cistern 1500 L capacity)

Loan Amount Rs 10,000 Rs 15,0000

Repayment Period 24 months 36 months

Repayment mode Equated Monthly

Service charge SHG 12% per

Monthly Installment Rs 500

Delivery of product Only through SHG, SHG Guarantee

Repayment Starts

After 1 month construction of tank or 2 months of availing credit,

whichever is earlier

Penalty

No prepayment penalty SHG will decide the penalty for missed installments

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Rainwater Harvesting Operations

• 1016 Tanka (Cistern) & access to 16732

• Recovery 52%

• Provides water security

• 580 Tanka made by other donors (secondary impact)

• RWH Tanka partially meet water needs but solves for water security

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Community Tank Rejuvenation

40 Community tanks refurbished

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Building Local Capability

142 local masons trained

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Users views

“This is a gift from heaven. I no longer need to carry water 5 hours each day and have more time to earn money”

- Below Poverty Line widow who constructed the kund through a loan

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Household Water Security

Tanka (Cistern) is the key asset at household for storage of water, people do depend on common sources -

(i) water resource to supplement requirement (e.g. tanker delivery, ponds, check

dams)

(ii) consumption (e.g. assess needs - drinking, household, livestock etc)

(iii) Ensuring water quality at home, during transit through good protocols

Tankers and Camel carts for fetching water in bulk for the

kunds

Baoris/ Talab (Open Lakes) as an alternate RWH storage system

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Mainstreaming……

• Government support and Microfinance seems to hold the key for solving the drinking water problem

• Financial institutions can play crucial role by providing credit to people through Self Help Groups to construct RWHS

• Mainstreaming through ongoing schemes like MGNREGA akin to TSC to fund RWH

• Gujarat has demonstrated the approach to support through programmatic intervention with partial financial support to BPL & APL families

• Water security at household requires revival of common water storage structures like pond, Talab, Naadi etc, which supplement the requirement once water stored in HH Kund exhaust

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Thank you..