SWIFT Story of Sustainable Change: Upgrading the water system in Namorputh, Turkana
Overview
In the past, residents of Namorputh in Turkana often spent over three hours a day queuing for water, or collected unsafe river water instead. However, following work by Practical Action to upgrade and extend the water system, villagers can now access clean, adequate water at any time.
Claire Arunye is using the time she used to spend queuing for water on her livelihood instead, increasing the opening hours of her kiosk and spending the extra income on food, medicines, school uniforms and books.
Find out how Namorputh’s Water Users’ Association is overcoming the past reluctance of residents to pay for water, and ensuring the long-term sustainability of the upgraded network.
Keywords
- Active citizenship
- Capacity building
- Civil society
- Community building
- Development methods
- Economic empowerment
- Health promotion
- Humanitarian practice
- Livelihoods
- Maternal and child health
- MDGs
- Millenium Development Goals
- Participation
- Resource scarcity
- Sustainability
- Sustainable development
- WASH
- Water and sanitation
- WEL
- Women's Economic Leadership
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