CoffeeSnobs FairCrack - Kirishi Water Project

[Andy]

Kirishi village on Mt Kilimanjaro now has running water!

With the amazing work of Bente (Uru coffee Estate) in Moshe, Tanzania and the financial help from CoffeeSnobs everywhere more than 1km of water pipe has been trenched and the village has a tap!

Previously Kirishi used a furrow to flood irrigate to a well and water was carried from there. Using an open furrow is a wasteful way of moving water around as most of it seeps into the ground or runs off in the wrong direction. With the simple addition of Bentes vision, a long length of poly pipe and some hard work the village now has running water at the dispensary.

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgTbSoVmsPs[/media]

Villagers will now save for their own pipe to attach to the main and clean running water will be available to every home.

Another excellent FairCrack result, CoffeeSnobs should stand proud!

[GrahamK]

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Thanks for the update Andy, the sort of stuff we take for granted, i.e. running water  [smiley=embarassed.gif]

Great to see Faircrack contributions not going towards fancy offices for marketing fatcats [smiley=smiley.gif]

GrahamK

[flynnaus]

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more than 1km of water pipe has been trenched and the village has a tap!

That is great news.

Where is it being piped from, out of interest? If from a river, I imagine a pump would be needed. It looks like they are getting good water pressure out of the tap - more than what gravity feed can provide?

[Dimal]

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Terrific stuff Andy.... [smiley=thumbsup.gif] 8-)

Another page to add to the chapter of CoffeeSnobs goodness

Mal.

[Dimal]

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It looks like they are getting good water pressure out of the tap - more than what gravity feed can provide?

Depends on the altitude difference between the collection and discharge ends.... Head Pressure. Pressure at the tap can be significant if the Head is substantial... 8-)

Mal.

[flynnaus]

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Pressure at the tap can be significant if the Head is substantial...

True.

I checked the Faircrack page and it mentions

March 2011

The first stage of the irrigation project! Run a 63mm pipe from the seasonal Mangana well into the village. Currently they flood irrigate through the furrow with 75% wastage. This pipeline will give a cleaner, more reliable water supply without the waste.

Im guessing the Mangana well is what is shown about 25 secs into the video and is fed from the Kilimanjaro snow melt?

[Andy]

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the sort of stuff we take for granted, i.e. running water

We do take a lot of things for granted in "the lucky country"... and are pretty quick to whinge about the smallest thing.  Doing this sort of stuff is really good for our perspective.

Great to see Faircrack contributions not going towards fancy offices for marketing fatcats

That will never happen with FairCrack!

Where is it being piped from, out of interest? If from a river, I imagine a pump would be needed. It looks like they are getting good water pressure out of the tap - more than what gravity feed can provide?

Yes, from a river.  Gravity fed and a big altitude drop from the river provides the pressure.  Ill try and get some topography from Bente sometime, I did have some GPS co-ords but cannot place them at the moment.

They made a concrete catchment beside the river, from there a 63mm pipe runs water half-way to the village it then reduces to 50mm and the pipes get smaller the closer they get to the village.  The last kilometer is just 25mm pipe and future branches into homes will come off that.

The other project that you found on the FairCrack page was to run a pipe from "Mangana well" to another village.  That was in and operational mid year.  The second part of that project was to run a pipe from the river to the well but it crossed national park and gaining permission was... umm... errr... interesting... lets just say that I dont want to discuss some nasty local politics online!

So the project needed to take another turn (enter plan B).  Move further upstream, follow a different ridge and get water to the same destination via a different route.

This village is following a different furrow, the "Mare Furrow" which splits off and runs into Msuni (where one of of the FairCrack puplers are) and Kirishi

Kirishi have the water now and Msuni will follow shortly.

Its all a little complicated, often way more complicated than it should be but that is the local way.  Thankfully we have access to superwoman Bente who can find ways of getting the impossible done.

8-)

[flynnaus]

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Wow, that makes the whole thing sound even more epic than what the slide show revealed. I am very impressed. Im very glad the world has people like Bente who put their heart before self-interest, you and your determination to invest in a project without middlemen. Im also glad my small Faircrack contribution is helping out.

A trip to the area to share a cup of coffee with the villagers is already on my bucket list.

[Andy]

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A trip to the area to share a cup of coffee with the villagers is already on my bucket list

Mine too... Im saving like crazy to get there one day.

[Javaphile]

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Another awesome FairCrack project!


Java "Stand proud Snobs, stand proud!" phile

[trentski]

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thats awesome 8-)

[Andy]

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Sure is!

Here is the previous video that shows it better than I explained it.

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnDV49D5uBo[/media]

Enjoy!

[flynnaus]

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shows it better than I explained it

Certainly demonstrates why the head pressure is so good