Water Well Need - Futuro de Manana, Nicaragua
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Summary
The rural Agros community of Futuro de Manana needs to have a well drilled in order to have sufficient water to irrigate their crops.
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Thanks to donors like you, a total of $125 was raised for this project.
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More Information About this Project
Project Needs and Beneficiaries
The twenty-two poor families in this community live in rural Nicaragua and have never owned their own land. They are now working with Agros to become land owners and learn new sustainable agricultural techniques, including using irrigation to produce crops during the dry season.
Activities
This project includes the drilling of a 100 foot well and building the basics of the irrigation system with a submergible pump and generator.
Funding Information
Total Funding Received to Date: $125
Funding Information
This project is now in implementation and no longer available for funding.
Received funds will be used to accomplish concrete objectives as
indicated in the project's "Activities" section. Updates will be posted under the
"Progress Report" tab as they become available.
Donors' contributions and pledges to this project totaled $125. The original project funding goal was $5,640.
Additional Documentation
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
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Why this Project is Important
Potential Long Term Impact
The ability to have water year-round to irrigate their crops will provide a great advantage to these families to increase their production and get the best price for their goods.
Project Message
"Whenever a community has the ability to irrigate their crops during the dry season, their income jumps significantly, as they are able to access the best prices when demand is high."
- Laurie Werner, Director of Program, Agros International
When this Project was Updated
Last Updated
This project was last updated on September 25, 2007.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on December 18, 2006.
Latest Update from the Field
Progress on Well for Futuro del Manana
By Laurie Werner - Program Director, September 25, 2007 06:01 PM
Over the past months, the Agros staff and well-digging professionals have worked to drill a well for the community to use for their irrigation. Two 154-foot wells were dug in the community. The first was paid off (for a total of $3,698.82) but Agros only made a $693.07 installment on the second well. The well-diggers thought of donating a third well to help meet the goal, which was to leave two functioning wells. However, throughout the process it became apparent that the wells don’t provide enough water to set up an irrigation system due to a layer of rock that crosses through the property from 70 to 154 feet below the surface. Another factor that can affect the flow of the ground water is a large-scale irrigation used on plantain and sugar cane crops in the Rivas department that lowers the amount of ground water available.
A generator pump will now be used to help pump water from the river to holding tanks from which to irrigate. This is plan B, and we are hopeful this will have good results for the community in their irrigations needs.
While the drilling of the well did not work out as expected, there are factors that cannot be controlled that contributed to the situation—the rock layer, the demand for ground water—and are part of the risk in the work we do. That is why plan B is important and we are hopeful it will help the community reach their goals.
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