Sharing this great resource on decentralized sanitation technologies for vulnerable communities developed in Brazil. You can download a free copy of this e-book on the link below.

https://www.fecfau.unicamp.br/~saneamentorural/index.php/publicacoes/livro/

Je recherche un financement pour la réalisation d'un système d'alerte de la présence de métaux lourds dans les eaux brutes polluées par les activités des orpailleurs clandestins.

Et également la mise en oeuvre d'un programme de suivi de la consommation d'eau des populations en milieu rural.

The vulnerability of indigenous populations: water quality consumed by the Maxakali community, Minas Gerais, Brazil. (Miranda de Assis et al., 2020)

Abstract.

Distributed in four villages with approximately 1800 individuals, the Maxakali people is the second largest indigenous population in the state of Minas Gerais/Brazil. The evaluation of the quality of water used for consumption and leisure in this population is usually performed by palatability and visual criteria. Thus, a descriptive study was carried out including samples of surface and groundwater consumed in four villages, considering water collection in three seasonal periods in 2015. PH (hydrogen potential), turbidity, dissolved oxygen concentration, conductivity, nitrate, total and thermotolerant coliforms were measured. The villages with the largest number of samples with values higher than tolerable were Verde Village (100%), followed by Água Boa Village (85.7%) and Pradinho (71.4%). The dissolved oxygen, total and fecal coliforms were changed in all the villages, with percentages above 50% of the samples. The turbidity and conductivity changes were detected in three of the four villages. Thus, the water consumed by this community, in natura, according to local tradition, presents a high risk for the occurrence of waterborne diseases in this population group.

Prime Initiatives is seeking collaboration and funding to build solar powered water systems for some selected rural communities in Ghana.

We are also seeking funding to drill solar powered boreholes for some 4 Primary schools and 3 Health Centres. Donors and individuals who would like to support these projects can send me an email on [email protected] or [email protected]

From rural Liberia in Lofa County, we are seeking partnership and/or grant support for the management of Voinjama City Water Treatment Plant. A multimillion-dollar facility, constructed and sponsored by USAID, now faces serious challenges due to a lack of chemicals, reagents for water quality testing, materials for new connections, and logistics. The facility serves over twenty thousand people with clean water.