Our Mission

Raising money for village water pumps (chaapakal) by selling hand painted regionally sourced umbrellas

Our first Chapakal (village pump)

Water Scarcity

 There is a large degree of water scarcity in Bihar, one of the poorest states in India.  One of the issues is wells not going deep enough eg 35 metres vs 100 metres and the use of water for irrigation vs drinking/cooking and personal care. 

Some villages need water to be delivered as a cost of 100-200INR per person per month.  There is also an issue of potential pollution of the water table itself.  

There is a project to redirect water from the Ganga, it will target key cities such as Gaya, Rajgar etc.  There are thousands of villages which are not connected and have no continuous water pump system. 

There are some truly innovative initiatives such as the drip feed irrigation by eg IDEI.  But locals say they need water pumps which cost 4,500-8,500INR, especially for the dry season between April and July. 

We aim to focus on the villages near Bodhgaya and build a map of where places need pumps based on water scarcity and show what has been built on this map.

 

 

 

 

 

Message from Anil.

As you have asked me earlier about the advantage of offering a Drinkable Water Hand Pump for poor majority:

The  majority general  peoples who live in slum, very hardworking labor, housekeeper, rickshaw puller.

Mainly those peoples are far away struggling of water no more source of healthy drinkable water, as it is water wells collapse, polluted water, and also the hand pump is not affordable to have the own hand pump for them.

So therefore we are trying to install the Drinkable Water Hand Pump installation to some of poorest ruler villages.

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