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Chaseta Safe Water Project

Chaseta Safe Water Project

A protected well for a community that had been drawing drinking water from an open pool at the foot of a three-metre cliff.

Before this project, Chaseta households collected drinking water from an open pool, and carried 20-litre buckets up a three-metre cliff to get home. The community supplied the labour — men and women moulding bricks, hauling sand and gravel, and sinking the shaft by hand. The completed well carries the acronyms USAID-WC-EWSF engraved on its apron. Safe water is now a stone's throw from home, the burden of waterborne disease has fallen sharply, and households can put their time into other economic activity.

Project in pictures

Progress on the ground — the work, the people and the result.

Before: a 20-litre bucket carried up a three-metre cliff
Before: a 20-litre bucket carried up a three-metre cliff
Before: drinking water drawn from an open pool
Before: drinking water drawn from an open pool
Sinking the shaft by hand
Sinking the shaft by hand
Community members moulding and hauling bricks
Community members moulding and hauling bricks
Women carrying sand and gravel to the site
Women carrying sand and gravel to the site
USAID-WC-EWSF engraved on the finished apron
USAID-WC-EWSF engraved on the finished apron
After: safe water a stone's throw from home
After: safe water a stone's throw from home
The protected well handed over to the community
The protected well handed over to the community

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