Water Sanitation and Hygiene - Buluvu - Namutumba
Visit by Alex Walyomu on 2018-07-07
- Report ID
- 2194
- Created by
- Alex Walyomu
- Created date
- 2018-07-08 16:03:18 UTC
- Modified by
- Lorna Katagara
- Modified date
- 2018-07-13 04:36:38 UTC
- Trip Time
- 07:34-20:30 (12 h 56 m)
- Village Time
- 10:52-18:00 (7 h 8 m)
- Travel Time
- 5 h 48 m
Current State
- Participation Rating
- 3
- Success
- Village Critical Needs
- Stoves are needed in the village since everyone cooks on three stones
- Village Action Steps
- To continue working together and to make sure everyone participates and contributes towards the borehole requirements
- Staff Action Steps
- To continue engaging the community and fulfilling the remaining steps together with the community.
- CLTS Progress
- Sanitation Hygiene Committee
- yes
- Water Users Committee
- yes
- Other Class Notes
- Community Ownership
- unknown
- Ownership Story
- Three Stone Fires
- yes
- Access to Clean Water
- yes
- Open Defecation
- no
- Water Access Explain
- Prevent Ownership
- Allow Ownership
- Village Notes
Water Community Meeting
- Meeting Topic
- drilling
- How Many Men Attended
- 75
- How Many Women Attended
- 80
- Staff Attendees
- Walyomu Alex
- Government Attendess
- LC1,VHT
- Visitor Attendees
- Total Attendance
- 155
- Look Up
- Notes
- Alex traveled to Buluvu to supervise the process of borehole drilling. On the way to the village, one of the drilling trucks got stuck in a bad spot and this made them delay for about an hour to get the truck out. Drilling started at about 12:50pm, the community was very surprised since they never expected it that day. However every one in the community was happy that they had reached this precious step and seeing the rig in their village drilling a borehole and also saying that soon they will be enjoying clean water. Because of a very good soil formation in this village , drilling was very fast because there was no any difficult rock to drill through and also there was no mud that could keep collapsing into the hole to deter the work. At 27M, water was hit and was a lot more as they kept drilling more. Almost the whole process of drilling was completed the first day and they managed to drill up to 48M deep. There was minimal collapse of the mud into the hole and they used only 3 temporary casings to stop that. The water capacity for this borehole is estimated at 3500L/hr. The process of blowing the water to clear was done the following day on 8//July/2018 and the water cleared very well. Alex will go back to pick up the land agreement and continue to engage the community through training of the water user committee and preparing them for the remaining steps.
Next Visit: 2018-07-13 - Purpose: Community meeting and complete land agreement
Report Photos
Setting up and ready to begin the process of borehole drilling in Buluvu
The beginning of borehole drilling
Taking soil samples after every 3M of drilling to be taken to the lab for testing
The community participated by fetching water to fill up the drums and be used during drilling. The water was got from the swamp where they get water from.
The drillers busy with their work
The first water was seen at 27M
A very big sign of water
Water that was hit flowing down into the village
These village kids in Buluvu village enjoying this memorable point of borehole drilling and waiting for the water to arrive
The drillers preparing the permanent casings
About 3500L/hr is the capacity for this borehole
Installation of the permanent blue casings
Installation of the permanent casings and pouring gravel into the hole