Promotion of Roof Rainwater Harvesting among 9 families living in Mahakachchakodiya, Vavuniya, Sri Lanka

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1. Creating awareness on rain water harvesting technologies to the community

Awarness prorgam consisted of

2. Selection of beneficiaries (9 households out of 60) which met LRWHF criteria.

#	Name of the Head of the Family	Number of Family Members	Number of Children	Source of Drinking Water	Distance of Water Source from House
1	Ms. W. Chandrawathi	4	2	Filtered	3.5km
2	Ms. K. A. Ramyalatha	4	1	Filtered	3km
3	Mr. Rohitha P. Bandara	4	2	Bottled	2.5km
4	Mr. Duminda Laksiri	3	1	Filtered	3km
5	Mr. Jayantha Kumara	4	2	Filtered	3km
6	Mr. M. K. Tennakoon	5	–	Filtered	2km
7	Mrs. P. Pabawathee	4	2	Bottled	3km
8	Mr. B. Chandrika Jagath Kumarasinghe	4	2	Filtered	2km
9	A. Sirisena	4	2	Filtered	5km

3. Install 9 roof rain water harvesting tanks of 8000L capacity.

4. Training and building the capacity of the community to operate and maintain the rain water harvesting system.

– Survey on monitoring RWHS usage and health effect was conducted at 9 households, the following details given below were identified

Project Areas	Mahakachakodi GN division in Vavuniya south D.S division in Vavuniya District
Duration	September 2016 – February 2017
Funded by	Japan Water Forum
Project Cost	Japan Water Forum: USD 4,145.00 Lanka Rain Water Harvesting Forum USD 2,439.50
Project Objective	Overall objective – The overall objective of this project is to introduce and educate the people concerned on the benefits and expediency of rainwater harvesting to meet their water needs.Specific objective – Improve the health of community due to drinking uncontaminated water
Project Activities	Creating awareness on rain water harvesting technologies to the communitySelect households to install the RWH system in consultation with the local community and authorities GramaSewaka (village administrator). Following selection criteria will be used to select the households for installation of the system: people who are living in the areas where the ground water quality is poor/below required standards, people living in the areas where water borne disease is high (CKDu), number of children, woman headed households, vulnerable groups etc.Install 9 roof rain water harvesting tanks of 8000L capacity.Training and building the capacity of the community to operate and maintain the rain water harvesting system.