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APFED Showcase Programme Introduction/Overview With 56 projects in 20 Asia Pacific countries, the Asia Pacific Forum for Environment and Development Showcase Programme has fostered projects which are creating enabling conditions at the community level for poverty alleviation and sustainable development. Since its inception, it has provided

• pportunities for various actors (CSOs, CBOs, NGOs, research

institutes and government agencies) in the region to realize their creative ideas, technologies and practices, aiming to facilitate widespread application.

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Association for Humanitarian Development (AHD) is a community based organization established in December 2001 registered in Pakistan under the societies Registration Act to work for the peace, justice, harmony and equality for all.

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A Case Study on Access to Community Based Safe Drinking Water

by

• A. Khurshid Bhatti

President Association for Humanitarian Development (AHD) Pakistan

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AHD Priority Programs

Water, Sanitation & Housing

• Promotion safe drinking Nadi water filter
• Promotion, awareness and safe sanitation/ sewage disposal in villages
• Provision of low cost shelter in poor families/villages
• Help villagers to have sanitation system low cost latrines
• Capacity building regarding safe Health, Hand Washing

Health & Education

• Non formal education programs
• Promote awareness on safe drinking water and cleanliness
• Conduct advocacy and lobbying regarding health and education
• Organize health programs/mobile camps etc

Agriculture and Environment

• Vegetable/ crops seeds distribution
• Agriculture and livestock trainings
• Promotion of useful animal breeds
• Promotion of Organic Agriculture
• Tree Plantation

Women Empowerment

• Formation of women CBOs in target village
• Training of women CBOs and capacity building workshops
• Trainings and awareness promotion of community development
• Women income generation schemes
• Formation of cluster/consortium in village/UC and Tehsils network

Relief & Rehabilitation

• Rescue help for flood hit areas
• Quick Rapid Survey

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Background and Challenges:

• Lack of access to safe and clean water in the disaster prone communities
• Untreated waterborne pathogens
• High prevalence of water borne illnesses

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• Cholera
• Hookworm Infection
• Arsenicosis
• Ring worm or Tinea
• Botulism
• Trachoma
• Campylobacteriosis
• Hepatitis
• Dangue
• Lead Poisining
• Diarrhoea
• Dracunculiasis
• Flourosis
• Typhoid

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Bio-Sand Nadi Water Filter:

AHD’s community based solution for clean drinking water

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Bio-Sand Nadi Water Filter: How does it works?

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A simple & indigenous method ensuring household water safety and security

• A biological filtering process involving good

microbes vs bad microbes

• Easy and adoptable design
• 100% local based technology with its material

available everywhere making it as best replicable model for household water security

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Lab test on local canal water show 320 thermo-tolerant Faecal Coliform per 100ml

Test on the same water after passing through the Filter show only 1 T.F.C per 100ml

Performance of Bio-Sand Nadi Filters.

Tests conducted at AHD + Oxfam GB Lab Parameter of water quality Purification effect of slow sand filtration Colour 70% to 100% reduction Turbidity Turbidity is generally reduced to less than 1 NTU Faecal Coliforms 95% to 100%, and often 99% to 100%, reduction Cercariae Virtual removal of cercariae of schistosomes, cysts and ova Viruses Virtually complete removal Organic matter 60% to 75% reduction in COD Iron and manganese Largely removed Heavy metals 30% to 95% reduction

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Impact at the community level

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• Improved quality of life of communities at the rural level
• Reduction in water born diseases related to morbidity & mortality in slum

dwelling communities

• Access to affordable safe drinking water with storage facility for communities

living in informal settings

• Community based household water treatment and improved hygiene practices
• Adoptable household water treatment systems on a sustainable basis.
• Empowered communities on sustainable water resource management and

conservation.

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Safe Drinking Nadi filter units for 1,000 families and 12,000 individuals through Bio-sand Nadi Filters

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