Project Report: Dinh Phuoc Water System - Vietnam

PROJECT STATS Location: Quang Nam Province, Vietnam Project: "Dinh Phuoc Water System" Partner: East Meets West Amount funded: $19,890 People Impacted: 1040 Status: Completed PWX report

For this is a piped water system serving 260 households in rural Quang Nam Province, central Vietnam, villagers were required to purchase a water meter and household piping. The water team constructed a water tower about 11 feet in height, installed a filter system, well pumps, electrical system and pipe distribution about 5,000 meters in length. The water is filtered, and may be treated with chlorine if biological contaminants are found. Water is piped to people's homes using gravity feed, and people pay for all the water they use (about 50 liters per capita per day).

The community was heavily involved in site selection, signing up households who pre-pay to be hooked up, community meetings to explain system and how it works, and then provinding labor to dig and backfill pipe trenches. Recipients pay about 12 cents per cubic meter for water. This comes to about $82 per year per household, enough to pay for electricity, maintenance, and the salaries of the water managers.

The Dinh Phuoc hamlet has a population of 2,609 people in 604 households. 80% of the population are melon farmers with a monthly average income of $20 per person.