Water Blogged

Thank you for bringing safe water to Ebenezer Christian Primary School! BEFORE: Located in Uganda’s Lugaazi community as a boarding and day school for primary and nursery students, Ebenezer Christian Primary School currently relies on piped water but continually finds its needs unmet. The piped water is unreliable and frequently breaks down or runs dry, so the school has to spend valuable resources on providing water to the students and staff. Even with these additional sources, water retrieved is not stored safely afterward. To protect the health of students and redeem critical classroom time, Ebenezer School needs a rainwater collection […]

Thank you for bringing safe water to Green Land Junior School! BEFORE: Students at Green Land Junior School, located in Kiduusu, Uganda, fetch water twice a day from the unsafe shallow well on campus – this is their main source, yet often breaks down and has an insufficient supply to provide for the school. The quality is poor, and this well is situated less than 10 meters from the latrine facilities at the school. In the past year, the well was broken for over six months in total. While the school does have an existing rainwater collection system, it does […]

Thank you for bringing safe water to Fausarah Kindergarten & Primary School! Located in Uganda’s Kiryagonja community as a private boarding and day school, Fausarah Kindergarten & Primary School relied on water from pipes on the campus but continually found its needs unmet. The piped water is inconsistent and provides an insufficient quantity of water for the school, so students had to fetch water from other sources off school grounds. To protect the health of students and redeem critical classroom time, Fausarah School needed a rainwater collection system that would provide safe water for drinking, handwashing, and more. The Ugandan […]

Bukwaya Primary School is located in the Iganga district of Uganda. The school has a pair of rainwater harvesting tanks that work great during and immediately after the rainy season but remain empty most of the year. BEFORE: The most often-used water source was a community well almost a mile away. Due to the lack of safe water sources in the area, the lines at the community well are always long, and the students miss a lot of class time walking to and from the well. Community members also waiting in line for the water often get upset at the […]

The UV Filtration system installed at Kampala School for the Physically Handicapped (KSPH) is solar-powered and supplied by water from a 5000-liter rainwater collection tank located approximately 1.5m from the kitchen. The filtration system is activated by a solar switch connected to a solar panel on the kitchen rooftop. When the switch is turned ON, water from the rainwater collection tank is pumped into the filtration system, which comprises the sediment filter, carbon block filter and the ultraviolet (UV) chamber or stainless steel chamber. First, water enters the sediment filter where dirt particles are removed. It then flows to the […]