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Learn how Shushilan empowers underprivileged communities with safe water & sanitation options. Addressing drinking water scarcity, high salinity, and disaster resilience in coastal regions.
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Welcome to A brief presentation On WASH Activities
Shushilan's Development Intervention Sustainable People’s Organization Education and Health & Nutrition Socio Economic Development of the Under Privileged Poor Sustainable environmental resource Management Human Right s And Good Governance Program at a glance
Uniqueness in context • Coastal area • Very adjacent to Sundarbans & Bay of Bengal • Highly saline prone area • Disaster prone area • Extreme poverty
Introduction/Problem: • Safe drinking water scarcity • High salinity in both surface and ground water • Existing fresh water sources are also saline contaminated due to gradual expansion of shrimp farming • Lack of low cost, affordable and sustainable water options • The main water facilities are RWHS, Pond Sand Filter (PSF) or Tube wells (TW), but most of TWs are becoming saline • There are some reverse osmosis system / solar distillation have been explored but due to highly expensive, low flow rates etc have been believed unacceptable for use
Introduction/Problem: • As experienced, in many cases, main option PSFs become out of order due to pond water contamination for intensive fish culture and lack of proper operation & maintenance • Frequent disaster • Around 40% people have access to safe drinking water • People are being forced to drink which are unpalatable & unsafe or they have to travel several kilometers to collect • Diarrheal diseases are common, & a main cause of infant mortality • Increased women & adolescent girls harassment and torture
Last 4 Years Total Budget and WASH Fund WASH related Staffs: Around 52 staffs including 5 Public Health Engineers
Approach to Implement WASH Interventions • Community Led Demand Driven Approach • Union Parishad Led Safe Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Promotion
Major Interventions/Activities • Community mobilization and Awareness: • Clustering (around 100 families) • Community Situation Analysis (CSA) • Swa-Unnayan Committee (SUC) formation • Development of Cluster Action Plan (CAP) • Swa-Unnayan Committee meetings • Mass awareness through rally, WatSan mela, Picture drama, drawing competition etc • Swa-Unnayan Forum at different level
Major Interventions/Activities • Hygiene Promotion: • Hygiene group formation (around 25 representatives) • Child group formation (around 10 children) • Student forum at school (250 schools) • Hygiene sessions at groups and student forums • Hygiene practice monitoring through small groups
Major Interventions/Activities • Installation & Rehabilitation of Water Options: • Pond Sand Filter (PSF) • Disaster resilience Pond and PSF • Rain Water Harvester (RCC & Low cost using earthen Jar/Motka) • Deep tube well and Shallow tube well • Water Facilities at Cyclone shelter • Ring well • Water quality test
Major Interventions/Activities • Installation & Rehabilitation of Sanitation Options: • Latrine at HH level • Community latrine at public places • Cluster latrine • School latrine • Sanitation facilities at Cyclone shelter • DAP friendly latrine • Low cost latrine demonstration
Major Interventions/Activities • Capacity Building of community: • Swa-Unnayan committee/Forum • Caretakers of different options • Imam/religious leaders, Teachers, Youth etc • Community Volunteers • Capacity Building of LGIs & Sanitation Task Forces • Capacity building of UDMCs • Capacity building of project staffs
Different piloting: • Piloting Water Safety Plan (WSP) in 6 villages in Shyamnagor and now scaling up in all area • Community managed water resources management piloting in 2 ponds under Shyamnagor & Asasuni Upazila • Piloting water selling (PSF water) for sustainability of the water points • Piloting Disaster resilience pond and PSF • Piloting on Ring Well • Low cost latrines with innovative super structures • Piloting Urine Diversion Latrine (UDL) • Piloting ground water recharge
Some Innovations/Successes 1. Managed Aquifer Re-charge Technology
Some Innovations/Successes 2. Disaster Resilience Pond and PSF
5. Deep Tube Well with raised platform 6. Ring Well with raised platform
7. Low cost RWHS at HH level 8. Stopped Lease out of Khash Pond and preserved as safe water reservoirs
9. DAP Friendly Model Village 9. DAP Friendly Latrine 10. DAP Forum
Constraints/Limitations/Challenges Faced: • Some of the areas have no Safe drinking water sources, neither on the surface, nor in the underground. • High salinity, Arsenic & iron in water • Very limited low cost, affordable & sustainable safe drinking water and sanitation option • Limited resources • Frequent disaster
Constraints/Limitations/Challenges Faced: • Increasing trend of shrimp Gher resulting different safe drinking water sources become saline • Occupational displacement due to shrimp farming resulting seasonal migration • Worst/most terrible situation of road communication • Very conservative area resulting less women participation in different sessions and others activities.
Steps have been / to be taken situation: • Worked with ArupWater, Australia to find out location specific, low cost, affordable & sustainable water options for saline area • Need adequate test boring to find out fresh water aquifer as some areas have no Safe drinking water sources • Build up civil society Network for proper advocacy at different level • Conduct different piloting • Adequate research to find out low cost, affordable & sustainable safe water and sanitation options
Steps have been / to be taken: • Special allocation to provide safe drinking water options in costal areas • Considering frequent disaster water & sanitation options need to be redesigned • Need adequate test boring to find out fresh water aquifer • Disaster focus community mobilization & hygiene promotion • Preparation for disaster response & rehabilitation • Strengthening advocacy initiatives at grass roots and policy level to ensure access of safe drinking water
