Children start collecting water as soon as they can walk!!
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Gender and Water Access
This video shows some of the water-related challenges that face women in Tanzania’s financial capital Dar es Salaam. The video features interviews and information on United Nations' and Tanzanian water policies. The video has been made by Robert Roy Hoffman Castaños in a collaboration between the United Nations Associations of Norway and Tanzania and FK-Norway.
http://video.aol.com/video-detail/gender-and-water-access/3844482183
PCI fight for clean water in tanzania
Lack of immediate access to water can have adverse effects on the health and development of a community, and especially affects the women and children of the community. In many parts of Tanzania, women and children spend an average of 6-8 hours per day accessing clean water. This can prevent some children, especially girls, from attending school, since water is usually collected by girls. Traversing long distances also leads to more danger for women and girls- including sexual assault, and rape. Children also frequently miss school due to illness, stemming not only from water-borne diseases, but also from walking long distances without shoes.
PCI has been working for many years in the area of water, sanitation, and environmental health. We have found that freeing up time for women and girls who spend hours each day collecting water positively impacts their health, education, and overall well-being, which in turn leads to positive community development and capacity building.
We firmly believe that community involvement is crucial to the success of our programs. Collaborating with community leaders is an essential part of the process to assess local needs and make decisions that would best benefit the local people. To this end, PCI has teamed up with the district council in Babati, a region in north-eastern Tanzania, and another community-based organization called ADRA/Tanzania to implement our newest water and sanitation project, called the Babati Health Through Water and Sanitation Project, funded by the Starbucks Foundation-Ethos Water Fund. This project will provide safe water for at least 30,000 people in the Babati region of Tanzania, as well as education programs for better sanitation and hygiene practices to mitigate the incidence of water-borne diseases. The project will also build rainwater harvest systems in schools within the area, so that children will have access to clean water while they are in school.
PCI has carried out successful water and sanitation projects in Central America, India, and Indonesia, and hopes to add Tanzania to the list of sustainable water projects in which women and children especially reap the benefits.
PCI has been working for many years in the area of water, sanitation, and environmental health. We have found that freeing up time for women and girls who spend hours each day collecting water positively impacts their health, education, and overall well-being, which in turn leads to positive community development and capacity building.
We firmly believe that community involvement is crucial to the success of our programs. Collaborating with community leaders is an essential part of the process to assess local needs and make decisions that would best benefit the local people. To this end, PCI has teamed up with the district council in Babati, a region in north-eastern Tanzania, and another community-based organization called ADRA/Tanzania to implement our newest water and sanitation project, called the Babati Health Through Water and Sanitation Project, funded by the Starbucks Foundation-Ethos Water Fund. This project will provide safe water for at least 30,000 people in the Babati region of Tanzania, as well as education programs for better sanitation and hygiene practices to mitigate the incidence of water-borne diseases. The project will also build rainwater harvest systems in schools within the area, so that children will have access to clean water while they are in school.
PCI has carried out successful water and sanitation projects in Central America, India, and Indonesia, and hopes to add Tanzania to the list of sustainable water projects in which women and children especially reap the benefits.
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Clean water empowers women
Millions of women in the developing world spend hours each day collecting water. The water they find is often dirty and contaminated, meaning their families get sick from diseases such as cholera, typhoid and dysentery.
The burden of care for sick family members usually also falls to women, leaving women with little time or energy left for productive work.
WaterAid and our local partner organizations help poor communities in developing countries to gain access to clean water supplies and sanitation. Our projects are very empowering for women, who are freed from hours of water-carrying labor.
http://www.wateraidamerica.org/images/2008/t/1_tz35_552.JPG
http://www.wateraidamerica.org/what_we_do/where_we_work/tanzania/clean_water_empowers_women.aspx
Wastewater treatment in Tanzania: Research paper
Constructed wetlands for waste-water treatment in Tanzania
Masudi, A.S, Mashauri, D.A, Mayo, A.W, and Mbwette, T.S.A.
University of Dar es Salaam,
http://www.udsm.ac.tz/faculty/foe/wetlands/
Masudi, A.S, Mashauri, D.A, Mayo, A.W, and Mbwette, T.S.A.
University of Dar es Salaam,
http://www.udsm.ac.tz/faculty/foe/wetlands/
Thousands die in Tanzania because of poor sanitation
THISDAY REPORTER, Dar es Salaam
WATER-BORNE diseases such as cholera, dysentery, typhoid and diarrhoea claim thousands of lives in Tanzania every year as a result of poor sanitation services, it has been underscored. A research official with WaterAid Tanzania, Ben Taylor, told THISDAY that between 2004 and 2005, nationwide there were 12,923 reported cases of cholera with 350 deaths, 154,551 cases of dysentery with 170 deaths, and 863,488 cases of typhoid with 1,167 deaths.
On a global scale, 5,000 children die around the world every day as a result of such water-borne diseases. Taylor said the figures are likely to be well under the actual numbers, as inadequate and unreliable data conceals thousands of deaths while many thousands die each year from diarrhoea - 90 per cent of them being children.
According to a specialist with the country’s Water and Sanitation Programme (WSP), Nathaniel Paynter, 17 per cent of under-five deaths are attributable to diarrhoeal diseases, making it the second largest killer of children after pneumonia.
http://www.thisday.co.tz/News/5071.html
WATER-BORNE diseases such as cholera, dysentery, typhoid and diarrhoea claim thousands of lives in Tanzania every year as a result of poor sanitation services, it has been underscored. A research official with WaterAid Tanzania, Ben Taylor, told THISDAY that between 2004 and 2005, nationwide there were 12,923 reported cases of cholera with 350 deaths, 154,551 cases of dysentery with 170 deaths, and 863,488 cases of typhoid with 1,167 deaths.
On a global scale, 5,000 children die around the world every day as a result of such water-borne diseases. Taylor said the figures are likely to be well under the actual numbers, as inadequate and unreliable data conceals thousands of deaths while many thousands die each year from diarrhoea - 90 per cent of them being children.
According to a specialist with the country’s Water and Sanitation Programme (WSP), Nathaniel Paynter, 17 per cent of under-five deaths are attributable to diarrhoeal diseases, making it the second largest killer of children after pneumonia.
http://www.thisday.co.tz/News/5071.html
Waterborne diseases in Tanzania leave 1 dead, 202 sick
ZANZIBAR, Tanzania:
Waterborne disease has killed one person and hospitalized 202 more in Zanzibar's main town and Tanzania's capital, largely due to a shortage of drinking water and poor sanitation services, officials said Friday. In the capital, Dar es Salaam, one person has died from cholera and 56 others have contracted the disease, said Gastor Mwakembe, spokesman for the city council. He said all the cases come from the most densely populated section of the city and that a health education program was under way.
Cholera is spread by contaminated water and food. "We appeal to residents to observe health regulations, including boiling drinking water," Mwakembe said. In Zanzibar, an archipelago off Tanzania's coast, 146 patients have been admitted to hospital for dysentery since Oct. 20, Health and Social Welfare Minister Sultan Mugheiry said. He added that most of the victims were children.
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/11/10/africa/AF_GEN_Tanzania_Waterborne_Diseases.php
Waterborne disease has killed one person and hospitalized 202 more in Zanzibar's main town and Tanzania's capital, largely due to a shortage of drinking water and poor sanitation services, officials said Friday. In the capital, Dar es Salaam, one person has died from cholera and 56 others have contracted the disease, said Gastor Mwakembe, spokesman for the city council. He said all the cases come from the most densely populated section of the city and that a health education program was under way.
Cholera is spread by contaminated water and food. "We appeal to residents to observe health regulations, including boiling drinking water," Mwakembe said. In Zanzibar, an archipelago off Tanzania's coast, 146 patients have been admitted to hospital for dysentery since Oct. 20, Health and Social Welfare Minister Sultan Mugheiry said. He added that most of the victims were children.
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/11/10/africa/AF_GEN_Tanzania_Waterborne_Diseases.php
Cleaning of drinking water in Tanzania: Research paper.
Appropriate Technology for the Treatment of Drinking Water in Roche, Tanzania.
S. I. Pumphrey, D. W. Divelbiss and D. B. Oerther
http://www.villagelifeoutreach.org/LifeDocs/Water%20Treatment%20Article%20%282006%29.pdf
S. I. Pumphrey, D. W. Divelbiss and D. B. Oerther
http://www.villagelifeoutreach.org/LifeDocs/Water%20Treatment%20Article%20%282006%29.pdf
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Ngaya Shallow Well Project in Busangi, Tanzania
Women and children usually have no alternative but to collect water with a rope and bucket from very deep unprotected well. The reality of this is that:
- Diarrhoea from drinking dirty water kills more children in Busangi than any other causes.
- Malaria accounts for a further 15% of child deaths and is easily spread through unprotected water sources.
- Women and children can spend up to six hours each day just to get enough water for the family. The water they fetch is often contaminated with parasites.
Access to clean water dramatically reduces the incidence of children getting sick or dying from water-borne diseases.
Plan Australia provides clean water to communities in Tanzania
WATER: In third world communities, water used for drinking, cooking and washing is usually collected from ponds, open wells and streams, and often contains parasites and bacteria. Lack of clean water is closely linked with to ongoing poverty as sick people are unable to do well economically. And when the children have no choice but to drink dirty water, they are the ones who suffer the most through sickness.
Plan provides a clean water supply in the form of waterbores, wells and rainwater tanks. Here is an example of Plan-funded water program in Tanzania, Africa.
Before Plan began its water and sanitation project in Tanzania, getting water was usually the job of women and children - especially girls. And it usually took several hours a day as a long walk was required (during the dry season this was up to 20km a round trip). Once at the well, there was often a long queue to fill containers.
http://www.plan.org.au/mediacentre/features/843
Water betters lives in Tanzania
No one in Lusala needs to walk more than 400 metres in search of water anymore. Fresh water gushes from taps at 11 drawing-points right within the Tanzanian community. For years, shortages sent women and children, the main collectors, several kilometres away each day. The drudgery was worsened by the hard-rock terrain they had to climb carrying heavy pots back to their hilltop village, located about 700 kilometres southwest of Dar es Salaam, the Tanzanian capital.
“Life is much better now that I have clean water near my house,” Elizabeth Mtweve, a villager and mother of four, told Africa Renewal. “I don’t walk all day in the heat to find water. In three to five minutes you fill your bucket by turning a tap. The water project has saved every woman in Lusala a lot of hardship and time.”
“Life is much better now that I have clean water near my house,” Elizabeth Mtweve, a villager and mother of four, told Africa Renewal. “I don’t walk all day in the heat to find water. In three to five minutes you fill your bucket by turning a tap. The water project has saved every woman in Lusala a lot of hardship and time.”
Saturday, March 14, 2009
Water sources in Tanzania
http://gallery.ethosmarketing.co.uk/albums/Roger-de-la-Harpe-images/Children_playing_in_water.sized.jpgOne third of Tanzania receives less than 800 mm of rainfall and is thus arid or semi-arid. Only one-third of the rest of the country has precipitation of above 1,000 mm. The long dry season normally extend from June to October, has an effect on low river flows and drying of water reservoirs.
About 7 per cent of Tanzania’s land surface is covered by lakes which include Lake Victoria (second largest fresh water lake in the world), Lake Tanganyika (second deepest lake in the world), and Lake Nyasa. Inland lakes include lakes Rukwa, Eyasi and Manyara. There are also big rivers flowing into these lakes.
About 50% of the surface run off water is derived from the main rivers flowing directly into the Indian ocean and these are: Pangani, Wami, Ruvu,Rufiji,Ruaha, Kilombero, Lukuledi and Ruvuma.
Ground water and Underground water are also important sources of water for both rural and urban settlement areas.
The largest use of water is domestic water supply. Due to increased economic activities and delivery of social activities of which all utilise water in one way or another, delivery/supply of water has become a burden which the government cannot meet alone without the participation of the private sector .
Despite the greater resource potential, many of the sources remain undeveloped and a good proportion of the population uses water from undeveloped and crudely developed sources: lakes, rivers, ponds, shallow and open wells.
By the year 1999 only 45 percent of the rural population and 68 percent of the urban population had access to clean and safe water supply.
While these figures are only national averages, the situation varies a great deal among different geographical locations.
Thanks to the country’s development policy which for a long time has put major emphasis on development of social service sectors, water included; thanks also to the water policy that has been encouraging other stakeholders (other than the government) to engage in water sector development activities.
Today Tanzania has a long list of institutions both public and private working in the development and delivery of water and sanitation services.
There are factors which denote the existing greater potential and opportunities for investment in the water sector now and for several years to come and they include the following: That there is greater unexploited water resource potential; there is greater demand for water sector services that is still unmet and that demand is still growing as both the population as well as the quest for social economic development in Tanzania are also growing.
http://www.ippmedia.com/ipp/guardian/2005/09/27/50502.html
About 7 per cent of Tanzania’s land surface is covered by lakes which include Lake Victoria (second largest fresh water lake in the world), Lake Tanganyika (second deepest lake in the world), and Lake Nyasa. Inland lakes include lakes Rukwa, Eyasi and Manyara. There are also big rivers flowing into these lakes.
About 50% of the surface run off water is derived from the main rivers flowing directly into the Indian ocean and these are: Pangani, Wami, Ruvu,Rufiji,Ruaha, Kilombero, Lukuledi and Ruvuma.
Ground water and Underground water are also important sources of water for both rural and urban settlement areas.
The largest use of water is domestic water supply. Due to increased economic activities and delivery of social activities of which all utilise water in one way or another, delivery/supply of water has become a burden which the government cannot meet alone without the participation of the private sector .
Despite the greater resource potential, many of the sources remain undeveloped and a good proportion of the population uses water from undeveloped and crudely developed sources: lakes, rivers, ponds, shallow and open wells.
By the year 1999 only 45 percent of the rural population and 68 percent of the urban population had access to clean and safe water supply.
While these figures are only national averages, the situation varies a great deal among different geographical locations.
Thanks to the country’s development policy which for a long time has put major emphasis on development of social service sectors, water included; thanks also to the water policy that has been encouraging other stakeholders (other than the government) to engage in water sector development activities.
Today Tanzania has a long list of institutions both public and private working in the development and delivery of water and sanitation services.
There are factors which denote the existing greater potential and opportunities for investment in the water sector now and for several years to come and they include the following: That there is greater unexploited water resource potential; there is greater demand for water sector services that is still unmet and that demand is still growing as both the population as well as the quest for social economic development in Tanzania are also growing.
http://www.ippmedia.com/ipp/guardian/2005/09/27/50502.html
Saturday, March 7, 2009
About our country, United Republic of TANZANIA
http://www.lonelyplanet.com/maps/africa/tanzania/map_of_tanzania.jpg
Tanzania is among the east African countries located between longitude 29 and 41 degrees, and latitude 1 and 12 degrees. It is the biggest in the region which also include Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi.
Total area of Tanzania is 945,000 square kilometers (mainland comprising of 881,000; Zanzibar island 2,000; forest and woodlands 3,350; and water occupying 62,000 square kilometers).
Tanzania has a population of 33 million people, 51% being women and 46% are children under five years.
Tanzania has a tropical climate with temperature ranging from 10 to 20 degrees centigrade in the highlands, whereas the rest of the country temperature range from 20 to 31 degrees centigrade during cold and hot seasons respectively. Rainfall follow bimodal pattern in which long rains 'masika' is in march to may, and short rains 'vuli' are in October to December.
Tanzania is one of the natural resource rich countries in the world including minerals ie gold, diamond, and tanzanite; wildlife and tourism ie Serengeti and Ngorongoro national parks, mount Kilimanjaro and zanzibar island; fisheries ie Indian ocean lakes Victoria, Tanganyika and Nyasa.
Data source: http://www.tanzania.go.tz/administrationf.html
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Joseph. L. Ng'weshemi, MD
Hello!
I am a Tanzanian and a 2008 /09 MPHM student at ULB - ERASME Campus, and a member of Administrators here at Tanzaniaecomm blog. I do join my fellows to invite everyone interested on exploring the beauty and issues of East African Country -
LAKE VICTORIA SUNSET
About me
My full name is Maria Joseph Chikawe,Iam a medical doctor from Tanzania.I work with the IFAKARA HEALTH INSTITUTE as a research scientist.I have been involved in Malaria clinical trials in underfive children.Iam currently a student of masters in public health at the Unirversite Libre de Brussells.
You are all welcome to visit our blog.
You are all welcome to visit our blog.
Thomas Lyimo, MD
Hi all, welcome to our blog!
I am the administrator of Tanzaniaecomm blog, together with my fellow Tanzanian students at Universite Libre de Bruxelles (ULB). We created this blog which is dedicated to show the beuty of our country and to explore different issues regarding 'safe water' availability as assignment to ecommunication course for the class MPHM 2008/09.
Thank you for visiting, and enjoy surfing!
I am the administrator of Tanzaniaecomm blog, together with my fellow Tanzanian students at Universite Libre de Bruxelles (ULB). We created this blog which is dedicated to show the beuty of our country and to explore different issues regarding 'safe water' availability as assignment to ecommunication course for the class MPHM 2008/09.
Thank you for visiting, and enjoy surfing!
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