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ACT (Arid Communities & Technologies) - It is a professional voluntary organization based in the arid region of Kutch. The aim of the organization is to strengthen the livelihoods of communities in arid and semi-arid regions by supporting communities to resolve ecological constraints through facilitation, or by providing access to technologies and also to endangering technological and institutional solutions.
Project location: Kathada, Mandavi, Kutch
Village Kathada is located on extreme coast of Gulf of Kachchh and is spreads over about 2345 ha area. The total population of the village is about 3460 persons distributed among 728 households. Most of the people are occupied with agriculture and animal husbandry occupations. While some of the families are engaged with constructions and small trading. Main population of the village belongs to OBC category and of Gadhavi caste.
Need :
In Kathada village there is a primary school and the gram panchayat supplied water from its bore wells to the schools. This water had poor water quality, with TDS of about 2820 ppm. The drinking water was an issue and the need of the hour for this school.
Work Done:
A roof rainwater harvesting tank for storage has been planned to match the one year demand for about 277 students and about 10 teachers.
Presently the school has a tank of 20000 liter capacity that is filled by panchayat supplied water but due to its poor quality most of it is utilized for domestic purposes like cleaning and for watering plants but not for drinking.
As per numbers of students and teachers, the school drinking water demand was estimated to be about 48000 liter per year and therefore, to manage it the school needed a tank of about 50000 litre storage capacity for rooftop rainwater.
The feasibility of the size had been assessed by estimating rainwater yield from roof by average annual rainfall of 350 mm and roof area about 798.64 SQM. The estimated figure stands at about 2,23,610 litres.
Some detailed calculations can be seen here.
Considering this potential of roof rainwater yield, a recharge bore well has also been planned within the campus so that the campus can have its own water for all requirements and become self-dependent.
Before, the implementation of RRWHS activities in campus an awareness program has organized with school children where members of “Jalsrot Sneh Samvardhan Samiti” of Bhuj city (who have mobilized about 13 schools in urban slum area and executed RRWHS activities) have shared their experiences and explained importance of such activities for self-sustainability.
Benefits:
School is self-sustained for drinking water needs.
Good drinking water facility is available round the year.
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