Water aid: Big pipe project

• Advantages of the project: (Water aid)

  • Brought clean water to 130000 locals which helped with agriculture and domestic use
  • Improved peoples lives
  • Ensured all animals and people had a safe water source: reducing risk of cholera act
• What are the disadvantages of the big pipe project?

  Only impacts a small village in Ethiopia: Small scaled project
• Is it sustainable?

  Yes - it allowed people to have access to clean water and earn money through agriculture.
• What are the aims of the project?

  This is a bottom up project aiming to work alongside locals so they can understand the needs of the people they are working with

  It was a 3 month project in 2013 to help install clean water - the team installed hundreds of metres pipework, a small reservoir.

  By a mountainside village
• Key facts about lack of water in Ethiopia:

  • 42 million people lack access to clean warer
  • Over 21 million don't have access to proper sanitation
  • 9000 children a year die every year to water related diseases
• Key facts: Case specific details

  • Small village: Adi Sibhat
  • 3 month project (2013)
  • Brought clean water to 130000 localS