Is there an NGO which can help in providing a solution for providing clean drinking water in Azad Kashmir (Pakistan).
Scarcity of clean drinking water in my hometown is acute. I need the support of any NGO to help me out in the solution of this basic need for my people.
How can we best combat water scarcity? With which technologies?
In Azad Kashmir, I am hopping must have water stream but will costly to build such facility to treat above surface water. The ground water will be best option.
Contact water aid as they are already working in Pakistan.
Contact Rotary International, get in touch with WASRAG. Rotary is a global association of business people dedicated to making a difference in the world. There is a program for basic water programs for communities like yours. Let me know how you do, my club could help sponsor your efforts as an international project.
Does the river water become muddy during the rainy season / in floods. If yes, then in that period simple filtration may not be sufficient. Some kind of clarification before filtration would also be required.
Col. Saheb, Lift pumping would be a solution. In this area is the flow of the river fast or placid. If placid it could be deep, but if fast it would be shallow. If shallow, you may need to construct a small coffer dam to collect the water for pumping.
Use vertical turbine pump for pumping the water.
Use HDPE pipes. these are good and lasting. The treatment plant, which also would be simple, would be nearer the point of use and would consist of filtration followed by disinfection. If chlorine is not available nearby easily then only use UV.
If electricity is a problem, then you may try renewable sources like solar and wind.
Hi Asif, Check out this documentaries and CCTV news report on YouTube and contact me if we can work together. Click on the following links;
1. A video documentary developed from a collage of videos about the whole project on You Tube Link: https://youtu.be/wbY_e2Xs5OI
2. A CCTV coverage of community beneficiaries of the Nawandagala Primary School workshop as they demonstrated their newly acquired skills and testified on how beneficial this workshop had been to their lives at this Link: http://english.cntv.cn/2016/09/22/VIDEx2oPS4eBD2Vmya278Ssy160922.shtml
I know waste plastic bottles are freely available in India and in abundancy. Though they are looked at as a hazard, they are solution to the water challenge! I will remain eager to hear from you.
Asif , Good idea and people like you must come forward to solve this essentially required human life threatening problem. Before, giving solution , can you share existing water supply and sanitation situation, drinking water management practices and levels of drinking water contamination , types of contaminants observed in Azad Kashmir.
Col. Engineer . Islam-ul-Haque, MSc, PhD, PE, AMIE, TI(M) R
I use Magnesium Oxide (MgO) prill beads to purify drinking water in Hawaii.
The prill beads come from a deep mine in Nevada. They are processed at 700 degrees which turns them into ceramic beads that do not dissolve in water.
The beads place a positive charge in the water that shatters the magnetic bond that holds together any contaminants or pollutants (chlorine, fluoride, heavy metals: zinc, copper, lead, chromium-VI, pesticides, radiation, pharmaceuticals, mold, Ecoli, bacterias, etc) and gasses them out of the water. It raises the water pH to 8.7, high alkalinity, high oxygen, and thins the water so that can penetrate the cell membranes and flush out your toxins.
As to hydration: 3 glasses of prill water is equal to drinking 1 gallon of reverse osmosis water.
Typically these bags are used in 3 gallon containers with spigot at bottom.
If you can get a community tank that is fille d by a source of water where people could fill their containers, it would work.
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WaterAid is a good one. In the Thar Desert region of India, there is Jal Bhagirathi Foundation (JBF) who works to build capacity in villages in terms of recharging aquifers and growing leadership and have a pro-poor policy stance. They tend to revitalize traditional water collection systems such as stepwells, tablas, tankas, etc...
Another organization who is UK based, is Wells For India . They may go beyond the border and do great work. Also, Excellent Development is UK based and do a lot of work in Africa with Sand Dams, but they have started work in India alongside JBF, also working on Sand Dam technology.
As far as technologies and restorations in your region, it would all depend on the history and contemporary conditions of your water systems, the terrain, culture, etc... and what NGO or leadership would be able and willing to help.
I am afraid that I don't have any information about NGO's in Pakistan, however WaterAid, who I have been involved with for many years operate in Pakistan through local NGOs. They may be a route.
in terms of technology that really does depend on what the issues are and the availability of support for them so that they are locally sustainable. It also depends on the scale of the problem and locality eg village or urban.
I am sure that if you have any specific tech queries I or others will try our best to provide answers on here. Good Luck.