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Rainwater harvesting in Ramakrishna centre, Lucknow, India (Uttar Pradesh)
Watershed Restoration and Blue Schools Programme, Uttarakhand, India
Blue Schools in the North Atlantic Autonomous Region of Nicaragua
Rainwater harvesting in Ramakrishna centre,
Lucknow, India (Uttar Pradesh)
Objectives
The main objective of this project is to improve the living conditions in Ramakrishna Centre in Lucknow by providing sustainable access to water.
To reach this objective, the best solution will be to introduce rainwater harvesting for ground water recharge. In the first year after the project implementation is expected that the sinking of the water table will be stopped.
In the next few years the abundant monsoon rains in the locality will replenish the ground water reserves and will provoke rising of the water table. The Centre's wells will have enough water by the means of this holistic, sustainable rainwater harvesting practice.
Project justification
The Centre is not connected to the mains. Its water provisioning is based on the extraction by pumps of ground water from a number of wells. The increasing water demand due to the regional industrialisation is the reason of constant sinking of the water table and consecutive drying of the wells.
To remediate the situation, a few times already the Centre undertook works which allowed reaching the deeper level of the aquifer. But the quantities of extracted water are more important than those infiltrated in the soil and this solution improves only temporarily the water supply in the Centre.
Now the situation becomes critical. The option of undertaking excavation works for each well in order to reach the ever sinking water level is too expensive and inefficient. Urgent solution should be found to guarantee water access and adequate sanitation to patients, medical staff, monks and visitors in Ramakrishna Centre.
Localization
The spiritual and hospital centre Ramakrishna is situated in Lucknow, Utter Pradesh (Himalayan region of India). It contains a modern polyclinic, a nurse school, two temples, a bank, a post office, a library, a building of biomedical waste treatment, a transport office, etc.
International partner
International Rainwater Harvesting Alliance IRHA
Local partner
Sulabh International Academy of Environmental Sanitation (SIAES)
Activities
As a first step, all the buildings of the centre will be equipped with gutters and descents conveying the rainwater from the roofs (12'342 m²) to the ground. Then, a network of canalisation will be installed in order to direct it to the aquifer's recharge structures. These ones will be composed of a collect chamber, a drilling and a sand filter.
Duration
12 months.
Direct beneficiaries
- 633'000 persons who receive cares every year, in the policlinc for the urban population and by mobile care units going in the surrounding villages;
- The students from the nurse school;
- Monks, medical staff, visirors, pellegrins.
Situation of the project
Phase: Fundraising
Collected funds from: Fondation Ensemble
Fundraising needed for: 19'800 CHF (12'200€)
Watershed Restoration and Blue Schools Programme
Uttarakhand, India
Objectives
This project aims to improve living conditions of 8 villages' inhabitants of Uttarakhand region as well as to preserve the fragile environment of this area. In order to do this, two objectives should be reached:
- To restore the ecosystem balance in four micro-watersheds of this mountainous region;
- To allow children to study in good condition (providing access to water and improving sanitation, but also to bring them up as future keepers of the fragile ecosystem balance).
To reach these objectives, the two partners propose to introduce rainwater harvesting concepts adapted to local conditions by using this precious water resource in a rational/sustainable way.
Localization
Four micro-watersheds of the Gagas River in the Uttarakhand region (Himalaya) in India
Local partner organisation
The Indian NGO "Pan Himalayan Grassroots Development Foundation"
Main Activities
Module A:
Realise 1'000 small ponds (diameter 5 m, depth 0.5 m) in each micro-watershed (total 4'000) in order to retain and infiltrate the rain water and thus to recharge the aquifer.
Module B:
Implementation of the " Blue Schools" programme in Gagas River watersheds:
1. Construction of a 30 cubic meters rainwater harvesting system in each school ;
2. Construction of improved latrines and dry ecological toilettes in each school ;
3. Education in hygiene and environmental protection ;
4. Education in peace, tolerance and gender equality ;
5. Reforestation programme (plantation of more than 5'000 trees) ;
6. Initiation on solid waste management ;
7. Providing computers.
Number of schools/ watersheds
8 school/ 4 micro-watersheds
Duration
18 months
Direct beneficiaries
Module A:
3'500 persons living in these watersheds; 2'000 persons living downstream
Module B:
4000 children, teachers, their families and the whole population of the eight villages
Situation of the project
Researching of missing funds. Collected funds from the French Fondation Ensemble
Fundraising needed for 63'000 CHF (40'000€)
Blue Schools in the North Atlantic Autonomous Region of Nicaragua
General Objectif
The general objective of the project is to improve the conditions of life of children in twenty two villages in the Autonomous North Atlantic Region of Nicaragua, especially in the municipalities of Siuna, La Rosita and Bonanza. The priority of this action is to provide drinking water access and decent sanitation in the schools and thus to improve the children's health.
The project will also be beneficial for the school staff, the parents of pupils and the entire community in each village. The intervention will stress also on reforestation, on hygiene and environmental training, Alternating theory and practical actions, it will initiate the children of a new way of thinking and interacting with their environment.
For obtaining the expected results, the IRHA will introduce its Blue Schools programme in which a rainwater harvesting action is taking a central place.
Localization
22 villages in the Autonomous North Atlantic region of Nicaragua (the municipalities of Siuna, La Rosita and Bonanza).
Number of schools
22 schools.
International partner
The International Rainwater Harvesting Alliance IRHA
Local partner
"Save the Children Canada", Nicaragua Office
Activities
1. Construction of 46 rainwater harvesting systems ;
2. Construction of improved latrines and EcoSan toilet cabins in each school ;
3. Reforestation programme (plantation of more of 40'000 trees);
4. Training courses on hygiene and environmental protection;
5. Training courses on peace, tolerance and gender equity;
6. Initiation in solid wastes management (composting);
7. Furniture of computers.
Direct Beneficiaries
About 5'000 children, their families (about 25'000 people), 150 people school staff and the inhabitants of the 22 villages beneficiaries of this project.
Duration
The project will be executed in 30 months.
Situation of the project
The project is in the phase of fundraising.