By Rathindranath Pal | Technical Advisor
1.0 Introduction
“Clean Water for Coastal People (in Bangladesh) Program” of NGF has been running smoothly though there is scope to further development. The number of beneficiaries and the geographical coverage of the program remain the same as was in the last quarter. Now we are producing around 40 thousand liters of clean water every day through six desalination plants located at six different places and distributing it among more than 2000 households. We are distributing more than 68% of our production at free of cost.
2.0 Activities
In the last quarter (Jan-Mar, 2018), we have carried out the production and distribution of clean water as we do normally. In this quarter, we have arranged more awareness campaign. The objectives of the campaign was the same as was in previous campaign (Jul-Aug 2017) - to make the beneficiaries aware of the available source of safe water or how they can clean water at household level with minimum efforts, second, the importance of safe water in everyday household practices. The target group was educated on the relation between use of clean water and household health, its impacts on the productivity/economic activities.
3.0 Analysis of production and distribution of water
In the current reporting period (1st quarter of 2018) 3.6 million liters of clean water was produced (Table 1) under the program. In this period, production of clean water has been increased slightly (1.12%) but the free distribution of clean water has been decreased by 4.4%. (see Table 1 & 3). However, in this quarter 3.6 million liters of clean water has been produced, of which 2.34 million liters has been distributed at free of cost and more than 1.2 million liters of water has been sold. However, income from selling water has been increased slightly by $131 (3%) and expenditure by $93 in this period (Table 2 & 3).
(Plz see data and analysis in the report attached)
4.0 Staff strength
The staff strength of the program remains the same as in the last quarter. For details please see the 2nd quarter report.
5.0 The challenges
The challenges of the program remain more or less the same. It needs to generate more revenue to meet up its administrative costs. To make the program a centralized water supply system, the program needs more staff, set up delivery points and procure a supply van that is why we are continuing our fundraising campaign.
6.0 The future plan
To achieve our target (that is stated in the campaign document) we are running this fundraising campaign. If we are successful, we will strengthen the capacity of delivery system so that we can supply the water at the door steps of the beneficiaries. At the same time we will try to sell more water to the nearest markets to generate more revenue as there is a great need of clean water.
By Rathindranath Pal | Technical Advisor
By Rathindranath Pal | Technical Advisor
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