Water Blogged

Buliganwa Primary School, located in the Nabitende sub-county of Iganga district in Uganda, has a total enrollment of 447 students, comprising 210 boys and 237 girls. The nearest water source to the school was a community well situated over a kilometer away. Being a public well, it frequently has long queues of people waiting to collect water. Consequently, students were spending precious time in queues when they could have been in class. The school needed to establish its own water supply. Our implementing partner, Drop in the Bucket, recently drilled a new borehole well providing safe water on the school […]

Pamin-lok oola, located in the Owoo sub-county of Gulu district in Uganda, has a total enrollment of 460 students. The entire area lacks access to clean water. Children were forced to walk miles every day to retrieve water, which was often contaminated. They initially found water in local holes, but these would frequently dry up. When that happened, they had to walk nearly two miles to a swamp to collect unsafe water. Our implementing partner, Drop in the Bucket, recently drilled a new borehole well providing safe water on the school grounds. The students and the surrounding community will benefit […]

Our implementing partner, the Ugandan Water Project, erected a 10,000-liter polyethylene tank on a base made of brick, hardcore, and cement. Once cured, the crew placed the tank on the base, created an overflow hole at the top of the structure, and attached a pipe to it that extends six inches beyond the perimeter of the base. Crew members also attached face boards to the roof of the building adjacent to the tank to create a suitable surface for attaching gutters that will allow water from the metal roof to flow to the tank. Just before the outlet pipe reaches […]

Our implementing partner, the Ugandan Water Project, erected a 10,000-liter polyethylene tank on a base made of brick, hardcore, and cement. Once cured, the crew placed the tank on the base, created an overflow hole at the top of the structure, and attached a pipe to it that extends six inches beyond the perimeter of the base. Crew members also attached face boards to the roof of the building adjacent to the tank to create a suitable surface for attaching gutters that will allow water from the metal roof to flow to the tank. Just before the outlet pipe reaches […]

A government-aided primary and nursery day school in Uganda, St. Bruno Mwembe Primary School, hosts 500 students, taught by 15 teachers in 8 classrooms. Their primary water source was piped water into the yard. Still, this source is highly unreliable, and staff described it as of poor quality, with an unacceptable color and taste. It is sometimes unavailable during daytime hours, typically only four days a week. Students would fetch water twice a day and often miss class in the dry season to find alternate water sources. Most of the school’s water-related expenses centered around treatment, which they did by […]