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Project #:

N23-R227

Project Type:

Pump Replacement Projects

Project Date:

2023-03-09

The People of

Pita Community Gwam, Nigeria

have replaced their worn-out pump and repaired their well

thanks to the generous support of

Faith United Church

(Courtice, ON)

Paul Svoboda

(Mississauga, ON)

Latitude: 9.47586, Longitude: 6.8643
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A message from the community

We the people of Pita Community Gwam wish to express our deepest appreciation to Lifewater for rehabilitating our community well. For the past three years, the well has been faulty. Thank you to your organization for coming when the community needed your help and services most.

-- Suleman Sarki, Community Leader

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

Yusuf is from Pita Community Gwam, where children and adults had to drink from a distant stream after their local well stopped working.

"Our children fell sick with diarrhea after drinking from the dirty stream, and our women who walked two kilometres to the stream to fetch the water ended up having chest and body pains," Yusuf told us. "This stream is often shared with cattle so the water is not clean."

With the rehabilitation of their well, including the installation of a new hand pump, safe water is now available to everyone in the community again. Residents thanked Lifewater and our donors for the well rehabilitation.

Well Details

Well Depth:	164 ft.	Turbidity:	Clear
Depth of Water:	16.00 ft.	Water Colour:	Clear
Well Yield:	5.00 gpm	Water Odour:	None
Screen Length:	0.00 ft.	Taste:	Good
Casing Diameter:	4.00 in.	Nitrate:
Handpump:	Afridev	Iron:
Developed By:	Electric Pump	pH:	10.000
Development Time:	0.25 hrs.	Bacti Test:
Disinfection:	24.00 hrs.