Water and sanitation

Water and sanitation:

Almost fifty per cent of the developing world's population - 2.5 billion people - lack improved sanitation facilities, and over 884 million people still use unsafe drinking water sources. Inadequate access to safe water and sanitation services, coupled with poor hygiene practices, kills and sickens thousands of children every day, and leads to impoverishment and diminished opportunities for thousands more.

Poor sanitation, water and hygiene have many other serious repercussions. Children - and particularly girls - are denied their right to education because their schools lack private and decent sanitation facilities. Women are forced to spend large parts of their day fetching water. Poor farmers and wage earners are less productive due to illness, health systems are overwhelmed and national economies suffer.

Based on the felt need of the community people in the project area, NM has undertaken several programs and projects on the water and sanitation in different project areas. NM started this intervention during disaster period. Following activities are implemented that are quoted below:

	Provide training on Water and sanitation to the staff, beneficiary and community people
	Set up Arsenic filtration model in each CLC in the project area
	Testing tube well's water through arsenic test kits whether its water is arsenic contaminated or not Provide training on utilizing arsenic test kit to the beneficiaries for testing tube wells water
	Set up a water tank for rainwater harvesting.
	Conduct training and awareness meeting on safe water, Arsenic Mitigation and sanitary
	latrine
	Water filter distribution
	Tube well and sanitary latrine installation, Bathroom, & toilet repainting during disaster period