This project would bring safe drinking water to the villagers of GATHAM PAKALA | ASRADA | BHEEMANAPALLI, who've been fetching water from spring sources. They contaminate the source and consume the same for their household and ablution purposes. This project also introduces sanitation and community & personal hygiene practices in the villages.

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Water collection at spring source

The primary goal is to provide safe drinking water & introduce sanitation for the villagers. Detailed goals could be:
- Water to be made available at the street level of this village using gravity water technique including water management.
- Introduce sanitation and community & personal hygiene practice in the village including waste water management.
- Introduce fund management, people management & community building.
- Bring a global exposure by posting videos/photos on blogs/AKVO etc

Though this program is maintenance free, following plans are introduced to make it more sustainable:

Gravity Water System:
- The innovative systems gravity flow and filter system require only drying of the filter media on open platform twice in a year.
- In epidemic seasons light chlorination is done for additional treatment. This treatment and maintenance system is very inexpensive.
- For repairs of taps and pipelines, monthly collected funds from households (VDF) are used.

Village development fund (VDF):
- The community proposes to raise a small development fund to which each family will contribute with the CAGs.
- The CAG forms various committees to ground activities.
- Small amount will be collected periodically and it forms into a Corpus, which will be called “Village Development Fund” (VDF).
- The beneficiary members revolve the VDF for other developmental activities of the village as resolved by the members from time to time.
- The recovery continues in the same mode for other development actives to be taken up with the VDF.
- Water and Sanitation Committees will be formed from among the beneficiaries for maintenance of the system.
- Identified members will be imparted special training on the aspects of technical maintenance such as replacement of filter media, Chlorination of Water, Maintenance of Delivery Systems.

Since maintenance of the project is taken care of by the community and the VDF being utilized by the same group for different activities, the community remains well knit. The project becomes sustainable because of its effective Governance by the community.

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