Water Sanitation (WATSAN)

HFHT launched Partnership project with local NGO “Nakukor” - Improved health through improved quality of water – Bio-sand water filters. The project designed to help rural communities suffering from the poor quality of drinking water. Inexpensive, sustainable, requires no chemicals or electric power, is low tech and can be produced with locally available materials. The BioSand Water Filter eliminates over 90% of waterborne diseases and parasites and produces up to 60 liters of improved water per hour.

So far in the project target area, Kumsangir, 310 filters for 620 families have been produced and distributed, 725 more filters planned to be produced in FY 09.

In the country such as Tajikistan where only above 50% of population has access to improved drinking water there is great need and vast opportunities for scale up and replication of this project. HFHT plans to continue strategic partnership with local NGO “Nakukor”, involve other partners as well attract MFIs to maximize the scale and the impact of the project throughout the country.

If you want to learn more about this project please click here and other WATSAN projects Habitat initiates in other countries, click here.

Only 50% of 7,000,000 population in Tajikistan has access to improved water and annually 51.1% contracted one or more water borne/related illness.