Projects

H17-W031

Drawing Water from New Well

Children of Lagrange

Children by new borehole

Safe water flowing for this community

The People of Lagrange, Limonade, Haiti, thank
Water of Life Project (Truro, NS)
Don Bannerman (Kincardine, ON)
For helping them get safe drinking water

Latitude: 19.62199 Longitude: -72.13074
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A message from the community

Dear Lifewater & Sponsor,

This community of approximately 500 people are mostly farmers and would have to walk 3 km to get water from another well. Thank you for this new well and it is not enough to say to you. It's been very hard for us to walk to get good water for drinking and cooking. We were told not to use the water at the river anymore because cholera had killed so many people in the area. The first thing you need to live is water, we did not have money to pay a company to drill a well for us, and then we found how to contact Lifewater, and a new well is drilled. Thank you very much.

Sincerely,

Eliphet Jacques, Well Caretaker

Some community details (provided by our in-country partners)

Water hardness of 40 ppm

Well Details

Project Completed: 2017-06-09	Well Depth: 70 ft.
Depth of Water: 15.00 ft.	Casing Diameter: 4.00 in.
Screen Length: 10.00 ft.	Developed By: Electric Pump
Development Time: 3.00 hrs.	Well Yield: 3.00 gpm
Disinfection: 24.00 hrs.	Handpump: Afridev
Water Colour: Clear	Water Odour: None
Turbidity: Clear	Taste: Good
Nitrate: 0.000 mg/L	Bacti Test: Negative
Iron: 0.000 mg/L	pH: 7.000