Chaseta households once drew drinking water from an open pool and carried it up a three-metre cliff. Today safe water is a stone's throw from home.
This was an old water source at Chaseta community, where households used to collect their drinking water: an open pool, unprotected and unsafe.
Getting the water home meant climbing a three-metre cliff carrying a 20-litre bucket.
In recognition of the problem, everyone worked — men and women alike. The community moulded and hauled bricks, carried sand and gravel to the site, and sank the shaft by hand.
The completed well carries the acronyms USAID-WC-EWSF engraved on its apron, for United States Agency for International Development – World Connect – Environment, Water and Sanitation Foundation.
Safe water is now accessible and adequate, a stone's throw from home. The burden of waterborne disease has become a thing of the past, and households can concentrate on other economic activity.
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