Water Well Project

Healthy water sources and adequate sanitation, as well as deaths from diarrhea in children and adults, subnutrition are of great importance in preventing diseases based on microbes that develop in water.

Currently, 35% of the population is currently deprived of access to healthy water in today's Uganda. This includes 1,7 million people in cities and 10 million people from rural areas.

This difference between cities and rural areas is due to infrastructure inadequacies. Especially in rural areas, since it does not seem possible to remove such an infrastructure anytime soon, it is imperative that people living in these areas meet their water needs from wells drilled.

The two factors mentioned below require that the need for a water well be numerically greater.

• Electricity access, which drops by up to 1.5% in most places, REQUIRES that water supply be provided only with suction and force pumps.

• When the scattered settlements and the inadequacy of transportation facilities are added to this, the need is multiplied.

It is in the form of residential areas of 1,000 – 1,500 people, where the need for healthy water is the highest and where more than 10 million people live. This corresponds to about 7,000 residential centers.

The daily water requirement of today's people is calculated as about 400 liters. Even if we think of it as 250 liters per day for rural areas, it will mean that 375,000 liters of water will be needed per day for each settlement.

With a very simple equation, If we assume that we fill a 20-liter canister in 1 minute from these pumps that work with muscle power, this means that the daily capacity of a well is 10,000-12,000 liters. In this case, 30 wells are needed to meet the needs of a settlement on a minimal scale.

7,000X30=210,000 wells are needed to be built only for rural areas and only for meeting minimum water needs. If we take into account that the population is growing at a great pace, this need is growing exponentially.