Simple bio-sand filters delivering clean water to Cambodia's poorest
Friday, March 13, 2009
Church World Service taps affordable clean water solutions in tight world economy
SVAY RIENG PROVINCE, CAMBODIA — For Cambodians in rural Svay Rieng province, a little sand goes a long way in helping
make water safe for consumption. According to a report by humanitarian agency Church World Service, residents in villages
of Svay Rieng have been significantly reducing incidences of typhoid and diarrhea by drinking water filtered through affordable,
user-friendly bio-sand water filter devices small enough to place in a home or office space.
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Some 1,900 families, schools, pagodas,
and community halls are benefitting
from
the filters and sharing the simple
technology with others.
Photo: CWS
CWS sand dams lessen Kenya-Uganda border water conflicts -- Women lead effort
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
World Water Day 2009 (March 22) is accompanied by increased regional water shortages in the United States
and around the world.
WEST POKOT, KENYA and MOROTO COUNTY, UGANDA--World Water Day 2009 (March 22) is accompanied
by increased regional water shortages in the United States and around the world. The shortages, attributed to climate change,
are causing conflict, stress and competition between communities for the dwindling resource.
But two communities in Uganda have decided to stop fighting and to work together to solve their water problems
with the simple but highly effective technology of sand dams. And, other rural villages in Kenya are building
the same kind of drought insurance.
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In Kenya's semi-arid West Pokot district, during
droughts when the
river bed is dry, women in the
village near this sand dam can dig into the sand and
retrieve clean water from a sub-surface
reservoir. Some
villages build shallow wells next to their sand dams,
to hold water for human use, leaving a dam-side
pool
for their cattle.
Photo: Henry Coates/Church World Service
Afghanistan: Church World Service responds to 'catastrophic' food crisis
Friday, February 27, 2009
Millions facing food shortages, possible starvation in drought-, conflict-stricken country
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN The most severe drought in a decade is fueling a grave food crisis in Afghanistan that
now threatens millions of people with food shortages and possible starvation, reports global humanitarian agency Church World
Service.
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On the outskirts of Kabul a CWS-supported shelter
project has provided
a home for one Afghan family -
the parents Malik and Bassri and their four
children, aged 5 to 14. Clockwise from
top, Bashir, Anin
and daughter Shikalah.
Photo: Chris Herlinger /CWS
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