MEANING AND UNDERSTANDING

Clean & Safe Water

Easy access to clean and safe water is a key factor for communities to thrive. 

This is because it is causally linked in the short term to increased productivity and reduced cost of living, allowing for surplus production.  And in the medium to long-term to improved educational attainment. 

What We Do

  • Engage communities in interventions from initial to final processes

  • Develop and improve water infrastructures according to need:

    • identify water source;

    • drill boreholes;

    • build water access infrastructure;

    • build water storage infrastructure;

    • distribute water (through pump houses, pipelines, distribution points and household connections) 

  • Strengthen Community Based Water Supply Organisations (CBWSOs)

  • Set up systems for transparency in water demand and revenue collections.

How it Helps

  • Helps children, especially girls:

  • time freed from collecting water from long distances reduces risk of harassment and enables school attendance and improved learning outcomes.

  • Reduces the cost of living:

    • lower cost of water compared to alternatives;

    • avoids health costs related to water-borne diseases.

  • Increases Productivity:

    • time freed from water-borne sickness and pre-occupation with water scarcity allows for farming and other productive pursuits to generate surplus income for investment.

How Are We Doing?

  • People Served with Clean & Safe Water

  • Health Facilities Gained Access to Clean Water

  • Schools Provided with Drinking Water

  • Children Drinking Clean Water at School

  • Litres / Hour of Clean Water Made Available

  • Intake Weir in Lukala village, constructed by DMDO with donor support.

  • Women collecting water at a distribution point build by DMDO in Mitwana village.

  • Pump house in Mindu village.

  • Water source assessment at Mpembe, a proposed Phase Three village.

  • Bishop James's visit during construction of intake weir at Namupa during construction.

  • Storage tank holding 30 cubic metres of clean water, build by DMDO with donor support.

  • Women collecting drinking water from the Nyengedi river before the DMDO drilled the borehole to supply Mkanga village with clean water.

  • Solar power to pump water from borehole.

  • Water source at Mulungo before DMDO drills borehole for clean water.

  • Man-made pond, a water source for Mnazi Mmoja communities before DMDO drilled borehole at Malungo to save both villages

  • Borehole drilling exercise at Malungo village

  • Construction of a 75 cubic meter water storage tank at Chiuta village to feed communities of Chiuta and Mikongi villages

  • Victor William, a Monitoring and Evaluation officer showing communities how to recharge their water token

  • Water pumping house for Makande community

  • A 20 cubic meter storage tanks in Mindu villages

  • A 75 cubic meter water storage tank in Mitwana village, Tunduru district

  • Women collecting water from unprotected pond, Malungo village

  • Distribution trenches waiting for pipes laying down

  • Inclusive public distribution point

  • A completed 75 cubic meter water storage tank at Chiuta

  • Water reservoir situation before DMDO intervention at Mandwanga village

  • Underground water reservoirs look like in Nambahu Before DMDO project implementation