Water for Mugeyo

Rehabilitation of drinking water supply in rural community in Ndiza, Rwanda

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Description

The village of Mugeyo, Ndiza Region, Muhanga District, Rwanda, will be provided with seven public water taps. The water comes from a natural source in the mountains nearby, and a pipe line of 9 kms to the valley will be built. A school with 700 pupils will get water from the same pipe line as well as some private houses nearby. User fees will be introduced. A water comittee will get training about maintenance of the water taps and pipe line

Who will benefit?

Category: Training

14 trainees

Category: Water

7 water systems
2000 people affected
15 years duration

Location

Africa, Rwanda
Mugeyo
-1.8, 29.8

Project in depth

Focus area

Water and sanitation Categories: Education, Training, Water

The old existing pipe line has been poorly maintained, eventually destroyed and is no longer in use. Nowadays surface water is used as household water including drinking water. The region has a long-term friendship relation with the municipality of Wageningen, The Netherlands. A local comite de jumelage facilates local initiatives to be undertaken in the context of this twinning relation. Because of the 30 year anniversary of the friendship between the two regions, the local population suggested the rehabilitation of this old pipe line, in the village where the relation started 30 years ago.

Goals overview

The goal is to provide 270 rural families and a school with 700 pupils with clean drinking water. Secondly, to ensure sustainability through the introduction of user fees and a training program in use and maintenance.

Current status

Technical work is finished, the water taps are operating. At this moment the final steps in training and organisation building are on the way (feb 2010).

Project plan

The population is responsible for digging the ditch, 9 kms throug rocky hilly land. Coforwa, a Rwandan NGO that is highly experienced in the construction this type of water pipe lines is the constructor of the pipe line and night storage tanks.

A student from the WUR assists the local twinning committee in setting up and training of the water committee, formulating user contracts, setting the user fees and training the population in hygiene, use and maintenance of the water taps and pipe line/ storage tanks.

Expected outcomes

1 pipe line of 9 kms
7 public water taps
1 water commitee

A water committee will be responsible for the operation and maintenance of the system. The same committee is responsible for the collection of user fees which enables to create a fund that covers the maintenance costs. The local twinning committee monitors all projects that have been carried out in the context of the friendship relation between Ndiza and Wageningen. This frienship relation exists for 30 years now and is highly vital and stable.