Water challenges at Nernsaduak village

 We got contacts from our local network innforming  a need on water challenges at Nernsaduak village. We then join the village meeting with  three local network, Word Vision, P  Change and Hill Area Development Foundation (HADF).

From the disscussion and site recce, we got to know that this 35 years old village located under forest reservation  area .Most of the villagers are Akha ans some are Esan who migrated in from many location in Chiang Rai and from our neighbor country.   There  are 445  villagers of  94 households and some of them are stateless. They grow corns and cassavas.

 Challenges on water are about 1) the land onwership . The present land of tank location  belongs to an individual and he wants to get the land back as soon as possible.  2)  water pipes transporting water to the water tanks always broken in rainy season while there aremany  leaves in the dams in summer.

After the site recce, we had a discussion and  drafted a  plan  to 1) build  four water tanks of 1.50 cm. diameter / 200 cm high to store some 14,000 litres of water at a  piece of land which are more secured.  2) build higher dam wall at the water head to prevent water pipes. 3) to find the way to prevent leaves getting into water pipe. 

The leader asked us if we could support materails  while they  share their labours . We did not make any commitment  but we told them we will have to estimate the cost of materials and  put this issue into SCF committee meeting agenda.

Before we left,  we introduced them to re-arrabge water distribution from the village tanks to the households fronm fishbone pattern to be looping system. So every household can get water when they turn on water taps at the same time. Also we introduced the leaders to set up water management especially using water carefully under a certain agreement or rules with  effective enforcement.