Water and Sanitation for all

This issue we have...

1. l Some facts and figures Urban slums of Gadap town - Baseline survey 2. l Leadership Trainings under Urban WASH Project 3. l World Water Day 2013 4 l Youth Development & Leadership Workshop 5. l Launching of Sanitation Campaign 6. l Muhalla WASH committee views 7. l Water & sanitation in Pakistan 8. l Water a blessing for Sindh 9. l Completions of WASH H&M Project in 35 Schools

Vol. 1 Issue.2

WASH Newsletter
January-March, 2013
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Some facts and figures Urban slums of Gadap town - Baseline survey
HANDS always seeks for better answers through situation analysis under our one division called Monitoring, Evaluation & Research Program, we conducted a baseline survey with selected people of three different union councils of Gadap Town, Karachi in which we selected UC 4, UC 6, and UC 7 with population of 134,900 residents from Gadap Town. Following important findings of study:
A child displaying a card stating importance of water in Gadap town

Supply of water in Gadap town is 7.5 hours approx in a day, with an average of 15.2 days in a month. 89.5% people use piped water for drinking purpose while remaining purchase water for drinking purpose and among them 5.1% purchase bottled water and remaining 3.6% prefers to use water tanker. There are 509 governments, private and welfare or NGO's schools are found, it shows 70% are government schools & 30% other than government. In the government sector 21% are girls schools, 55% are boys schools while 23% were mix schools. 90% government schools were found functional or open for students at the time of survey in which total enrollment found more than fifty thousand. Approx 90% government schools manage to have drinking water but restroom facility was found in 62% schools, however it was functional only in 33% schools. Hand washing facility was available only in 5.1% schools and availability of soap for washing hands was found only in 2.2% schools. Majority of high officials of government and private reported during survey that 25 gallon per person is required at standard and the schemes are designed at 20 per capita. Government officials also stated that they still have the same quota as they had 10 to 15 years back. Karachi city receives 645 million gallons per day (Mgd) water supply for the population of more than 20 million people; however it ought to be 1000 million gallons per day (Mgd) for this huge number of population as per report of Karachi Water and Sewerage Board officials shared A project beneficiary is enjoying pure, safe drinking water in HANDS survey.

Editorial
Editor in Chief Bilquis Rehman Editor Faizan Munawar Ali Varya Contributors Prof. Abdul Gaffar Billoo Dr. Shaikh Tanveer Ahmed Dr. Muhammed Aslam Khan Rubina Jaffery Ghulam Mustaf Zaor Shoaib Ahmed Laldin Balal Abdul Rahim Moosvi Asifa Khan Lal Muhammad Abrar Ahmed Siddiqui

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Leadership Trainings under Urban WASH Project

A workshop for government officials
HANDS Institute of community development organized two days leadership development training on 6 and 7 March 2013 at Sheraton Hotel Karachi under its "Ubran WASH project" for government officials of line departments including KW&SB (Karachi Water & Sewerage Board), PHED (Public Health Engineering Department), TMA (Town Municipal Administration) Gadap Town, Revenue Department and the Education Department.

A group photo of participations along with Chairman HANDS Prof. Dr. A.G. Billoo, CE HANDS Dr. Shaikh Tanveer Ahmed, and GM IDEAS Ghulam Mustafa Zaor.

The training was led and facilitated by Dr. Shaikh Tanveer Ahmed, chief executive HANDS, who expressed the ideas, and discussed about values and principles, concept and metaphor of transformative leadership, the personality and the character.

Government officials are busy in improving their skills while a group task.

CE HANDS Dr. Shaikh Tanveer is conducting workshop while government officials are carefully listening to him.

Workshop for Teachers and School Management on "Health Action School"

Four days workshop organized by HANDS for schools teachers and school management committees on "Health Action Schools" which was conducted on 25th to 28th Feb at social development organization centre near Memon Goth, Gadap Town, Karachi that was organized under "Urban WASH Project" in order to provide information and basic knowledge of waterborne diseases and to prevent waterborne diseases. Training provided sufficient knowledge about waterborne diseases and its cure and treatments to be taken in making water potable and to take appropriate measures to eradicate malaria, dysentery and hepatitis from the perspective area.

World Water Day 2013

Dissemination Seminar on Water & Sanitation Survey in urban slums of Gadap Town
World Water Day 2013 observed by HANDS in collaboration with WaterAids on 22 March 2013 at a local hotel in Karachi. Baseline results of water and sanitation status in urban slums of Gadap Town were presented on the occasion by Rubina Jaffri GM MER. HANDS. "Awareness programs ought to be arranged to expose public about the appropriate consumption of such natural Youth Representative resources and also about to prevent Jinnah University for waterborne diseases suggested". Women

Sheild distribution among government officials with presence of Chief Guest Inam Asif, CE HANDS Dr. Shaikh Tanveer, GM IDEAS HANDS Ghulam Mustafa Zaor, GM MER Rubina Jeffery

Dr. Shaikh Tanveer Ahmed, Inam Asif, Bilquis Rehman, Rubina Jaffry, Ghulam Musafa Zaor, Waseem Solangi while expressing their views

Dr. Shaikh Tanveer Ahmed CE HANDS, precisely discussed Bilquis Rehman General Manger ICR& Advocacy shared need of facilitation for safe drinking water and sanitation in the advocacy plan for the project and invited participants to urban slums of Gadap town in his welcome address. join the cause. General Manager, Ghulam Mustafa Zaor said in his closing remarks that water board role is commendable Chief guest Mr. Inam Asif promised for every sort of co- in this project and he thanked line department official for operation to sustain water and sanitation facilities by the being highly supportive for the project implementation and government department. also ownership they showed for the cause of providing safe water to people.

A group Photograph of students after seminar on importance of Water in Jan Mohammad Girls School, UC 6 Gadap on celebration of World Water Day.

Participants are paying attention and listening carefully to speaker on Dissemination Seminar held on 22 March 2013

Students are celebrating World Water Day 2013 with full zeal and zest in their school

Youth Development & Leadership Workshop

Workshop on Leaders for Hygiene Promotion
HANDS organized two days training for students of government boys and girls primary to elementary, lower secondary and secondary was conducted in collaboration with Water Aid under H&M School and WASH project. trained as hygiene promoters. These trainings aimed to achieve positive changes in children's personal health, environment and impacts on families and communities more than 350 students trained in Leaders for Hygiene Promotion.

Ten students were selected from 9-14 years age groups to HANDS trainer of Leaders for Hygiene Promotion which help multiply and influence hygiene practices among their assisted more than 350 students fellow students. Out of 350 students 190 students were

Human and Institutional Development and Education Programs facilitated a series of two days learning and training sessions on "Leaders for Hygiene Promotion" (HAS Child to Child) conducted by Abdul Razzaq Umarani of HANDS at Karachi Rural and SDO Training Hall Memon Goth.

Participant students are demonstrating their group activity work to other participants while two days training workshop on "Leaders for Hygiene Promotion"

Launching of Sanitation Campaign

Launch of the campaign "Keep Your Promises on Sanitation"
improve governance of the sanitation sector. The campaign is being launched in parallel on 19th March 2013, in four countries of the region (Bangladesh, India, Nepal and The launch of the sanitation campaign called "Keep Your Pakistan). In Pakistan, the Campaign was simultaneously Promises on Sanitation"? was held in Karachi Press Club launched in Islamabad, Quetta, Lahore, Karachi and Peshawar on 19th March, 2013. Its aims to establish a broad-based at respective press clubs. civil society and citizens alliance to create a momentum to

Chief Executive HANDS Dr. Tanveer while giving press briefing at Karachi Press Club on Launch of the sanitation campaign called "Keep Your Promises on Sanitation" on 19th March, 2013

Senior Journalists while reporting the press conference

Muhalla WASH committee views on Rehabilitation of Communal Filtration Plant in UC-7 Yousuf Goth
The communal filtration plant was rehabilitated by the community members of the Muhalla WASH Committee of Yusuf Goth, which has mobilized by HANDS team under WASH WaterAid Project. The filtration plant was installed by CDGK in 2004 with the technical assistance of so-safe Pakistan which becomes defunct. The plant has the capacity of delivering 1000 gallons of filtered drinkable water per day.

We are pleased to see the project that HANDS and Water

Aid Pakistan has done for the restoration and rehabilitation of the water delivery system and water filtration plant in the area. We are getting great benefit with such intervention .
Chairperson Muhalla WASH committee

Ghous Bux Samejo

Prior to the Communal water filteration plant rehabilitation of the communal water filtration plant we were reluctant in getting drinking water on a very expensive price both in terms of cash and health. As the only way we could have got water was through tankers run by local tankers mafia .

Muhalla WASH committee member

Mr. Rasool Bux Almani

Water & sanitation in Pakistan

By: Dr. Mohammed Aslam Khan

.... A tale of a crumbled system

Numerous developing countries, including Pakistan, continued to face health and educational issues as their respective governments had so far failed to meet the millennium development goals related to both issues, which were set in 1990. Though the world`s population consuming drinking water from improved sources had increased by 1.6 billion since 1990, it was a source of concern that 746 million people which is 84 per cent of the world`s rural population who still used water from unimproved sources. Similarly, sanitation coverage in urban areas increased to 79 per cent and in rural areas to 45 per cent only. In Pakistan, according to an expert, 45 per cent of the population was using improved sanitation facilities like piped sewerage system, septic tank, pit latrine and ventilation. Pakistan with a population exceeding 180 million people is the sixth most populous country in the world. Most of its land covered by hot desert areas with little freshwater supply, though there are extensive flood plains and remote mountainous areas too. Lack of political commitments, disputes and drying investment has left Pakistan underdeveloped and dependent on international creditors. 20 million people were affected by devastating floods and 20% land has inundated in August 2010. Leaving behind scarcity of drinking water and destroyed sanitation system. It is estimated that by 2015, over half of the population of Pakistan will live in urban areas, putting extreme strain on water provisions. Sanitation coverage in Pakistan is only 45% and around 10% of the populations don't have access to safe water. Unsafe water and poor sanitation cause diseases which cost the Pakistani economy 112 billion Rupees per year in health expenses and lost earnings. Drinking water supply and sanitation in Pakistan is characterized by some achievements and many challenges. Despite high population growth the country has increased the share of the population with access to an improved water source from 85% in 1990 to 92% in 2010, although this does not necessarily mean that the water from these sources is safe to drink. The share with access to improved sanitation increased from 27% to 48% during the same period, according to the Joint Monitoring Program (JMP) for Water Supply and Sanitation. However, the sector still faces major challenges. The quality of the services is poor. Poor drinking water quality and sanitation lead to major outbreaks of waterborne diseases. Major outbreaks of waterborne diseases swept the cities of Faisalabad, Karachi, Lahore and Peshawar in 2006. According to the Pakistan Social And Living Standards Measurement Survey of 2010-11, the main source of drinking water was as follows: 32% tap water, 28% hand pump, 27% motor pump, 4% dug well and 9% others. Assuming that other sources are identical to unimproved water sources, access to an improved water source was 91%, almost identical to the 2010 figure estimated by the JMP. The Millennium Development Goals aimed at halving the share of people without sustainable access to an improved water source and improved sanitation by 2015 compared to 1990.

Increased arsenic, nitrate and fluoride contamination was detected in drinking water in various localities in Pakistan which makes good drinking water more precious, according to an official government document. Generally, water pressure is low in Pakistani supply systems. Together with leaky pipes, this leads to infiltration of contaminated water. A survey of drinking water samples in Karachi in 2007/08 found that, of 216 ground and surface water samples collected, 86% had lead levels higher than the WHO maximum acceptable concentration of 10 parts per billion (ppb). In 2012, water-borne Naegleria fowleri have killed at least 10 people in Karachi in three months. Impact of inadequate sanitation is alarming. The economic impact of inadequate sanitation has been estimated at 344 billion Rupees (US$5.7 billion), equivalent to almost 4 percent of GDP. 87% of the impact is on health, 5% on increased costs of water supply and 8% are other impacts.

The main health impacts are premature mortality and productivity losses, followed by treatment costs. The government receives substantial external support to improve drinking water supply and sanitation through loans from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the World Bank, as well as grants from Japan and the United States as well not only local NGOs but also Foreign NGOs provide support for the extension of drinking water supply and sanitation in Pakistan. Such as, WaterAid from the United Kingdom has set up a rainwater collection project in the Thar Desert and influenced government in the city of Gujranwala in the province of Punjab leading to the provision of clean water for 2,500 slum residents. It also helped to include hygiene education in schools. WaterAid started a project of WASH with HANDS in Karachi since 2012 to provide safe drinking water to dwellers during next four years.

Water

.... A blessing for Sindh By: Bilqius Rehman Nature has blessed Pakistan with abundant surface and subsurface water resources. These resources had been exploited and utilized for agricultural, domestic, and industrial purposes. Karachi city which is the home to approx 20 million people, who are supplied with water primarily through Gujjo and Hub canal, water is also essential for power generation in Pakistan approx 29% is generated through hydropower. If we talk about water we should not forget, Indus basin which is a part of the catchments of the Indus river system that includes the Northwest Mountains, Desert areas of Sindh, the Rann of Kachh, the Katchi plain and the Bahawalpur these plains are stretched over a distance of 1528 Kilometers (950 miles) to the tidal delta near the Arabian Sea. Sindh is blessed with many natural lakes such as Manchar, Kinjhar, Haleji, Hadero, Chotiari due to continuous water storage and diversion in Punjab, the costal ecosystem has been damaged. Over 486,000 hectares land were eroded or lost to the sea within Thatta and Badin districts, dislocating a quarter million people, and inflicting financial losses over 2 billion dollars. Water conservation programs such as, lining of minor canals, distributaries, and water courses should be accelerated to reduce problems of water logging and salinity in the country. According to health experts who stated approximately 30,000 people, most of them children, die each year in the city due to consumption of contaminated water. Waterborne diseases, especially gastro, typhoid, hepatitis, malaria, dengue and skin ailments are on the rise in Karachi. As being citizen of our beloved country we ought not to waste water but show some responsibility towards it and use it properly because water worth a lot we don't care because we live in city of luxuries ask those who live in desert who depend on rain for consumption of water.

Completions of WASH - H&M Project in 35 Schools

By: Ghulam Mustafa Zaor HANDS has implemented the project titled WASH Project in collaboration with Water Aid Pakistan under its Urban WASH program funded by H&M in 3 Union Council of Gadap Town, District Malir, Karachi. The 3 UCs (Union Councils/ An administrative unit at the local level) included UC-1 Murad Memon Goth, UC-2 Darsano Chhano, UC-3 Gadap Town. Within the targeted project area of water supply systems in 35 schools have constructed and rehabilitated to ensure safe water supply system to students. In order to keep a check on water quality, water quality testing (chemical and microbial) have been conducted in assistance with PCRWR (Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources) and the results of the same have documented and shared with SMCs and School WASH committees. Global events as World Water Day and Global Hand Washing Day have celebrated in order to highlight its importance among government, civil society organizations and communities so as to increase both the awareness and to influence policy through advocacy. In this project 35 schools have been upgraded as model schools. The implementation approach of the project included formation of 35 School WASH Committees amongst the 20 communities in 3 union councils of Gadap Town. All the 35 schools are also using low cost portable ceramic water filter plants.

A water purification unit placed in schools

A representative of HANDS is explaining about the features of Water purification unit and assuring its water purification ability to government official for placement of these units in government schools.

School latrines and hand washing facilities in 35 model schools have also been rehabilitated. The sanitation facilities provided are child, gender and disability friendly in cases where schools have physically challenged s t u d e n t s . T h e S c h o o l WA S H Committees have supervised all the rehabilitation work through local skilled and unskilled labours. Each school WASH Committee has opened its bank account in the local bank (HBL/Habib Bank Ltd.) thereby organizing and generating future resources for ensuring proper and sustainable rehabilitation and maintenance of the school WASH. As a measure of improving both the children and community hygiene behaviors some 360 children have been trained as young leaders for hygiene promotion. A comprehensive training module inclusive of health and hygiene education has also been developed and as resource could be used by any organization without permission of copy writes.

A view of completely renovated washrooms under School WASH project

The hygiene promotion has also included training and capacity building of teachers, staff and creating awareness among men, women, children, adolescent girls, teachers, SMCs/ School WASH committees and local communities about personal and environmental hygiene issues. IEC (Information Education and Communication) materials have also been provided in the 35 schools. The hygiene messages are mainly focused personal hygiene, hand washing, latrine use, water quality and menstrual hygiene management for adolescent girls. Child to Child approach is the key tool in multiplying the hygiene awareness under this project.
Project beneficiaries are washing their hands

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This publication is published with the financial assistance of WaterAid and HSBC. For further contact: ideas@hands.org.pk