At the beginning of 2010, during the fieldwork of two of our project coordinators, we visited the village of Tinto in the Southwest Region of Cameroon. An hour's walk from the first houses of this village is a clear stream of good and drinkable water in the middle of the tropical rainforest. Down hill, next to Tinto, there are five villages with a total of 8,000 inhabitants.At the beginning of 2010, during the fieldwork of two of our project coordinators, we visited the village of Tinto in the Southwest Region of Cameroon. An hour's walk from the first houses of this village is a clear stream of good and drinkable water in the middle of the tropical rainforest. Down hill, next to Tinto, there are five other villages with a total of 8,000 inhabitants.
There was already a pipeline system from the water source that supplied the villages with water. The population increased considerably during these 40 years and the local community tried to keep the system running as well and as badly as possible. As a result, the water was not always clean and the system only supplied water for 55% of the inhabitants.
With support from LiveBuild, the outdated parts of the system have since been patched up, part of the pipeline has been replaced and expanded on a few points. As a result, the water supply is up to standard again and nearly 3,000 additional inhabitants have access to clean drinking water in their village. Only Defang, the 6th village in the cooperation project, does not yet have water because of the too large distance to the water sources. The village is currently looking for an alternative solution in consultation with LiveBuild.
To ensure that the community continues to properly manage the water system, training sessions have been conducted by both the water committee and local maintenance technicians. The water committee is working on collecting contributions from all households in order to have sufficient money for maintenance and renovation work in the future.
At the beginning of 2010, during the fieldwork of two of our project coordinators, we visited the village of Tinto in the Southwest Region of Cameroon. An hour's walk from the first houses of this village is a clear stream of good and drinkable water in the middle of the tropical rainforest. Down hill, next to Tinto, there are five villages with a total of 8,000 inhabitants.At the beginning of 2010, during the fieldwork of two of our project coordinators, we visited the village of Tinto in the Southwest Region of Cameroon. An hour's walk from the first houses of this village is a clear stream of good and drinkable water in the middle of the tropical rainforest. Down hill, next to Tinto, there are five other villages with a total of 8,000 inhabitants.
There was already a pipeline system from the water source that supplied the villages with water. The population increased considerably during these 40 years and the local community tried to keep the system running as well and as badly as possible. As a result, the water was not always clean and the system only supplied water for 55% of the inhabitants.
With support from LiveBuild, the outdated parts of the system have since been patched up, part of the pipeline has been replaced and expanded on a few points. As a result, the water supply is up to standard again and nearly 3,000 additional inhabitants have access to clean drinking water in their village. Only Defang, the 6th village in the cooperation project, does not yet have water because of the too large distance to the water sources. The village is currently looking for an alternative solution in consultation with LiveBuild.
To ensure that the community continues to properly manage the water system, training sessions have been conducted by both the water committee and local maintenance technicians. The water committee is working on collecting contributions from all households in order to have sufficient money for maintenance and renovation work in the future.
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