Running Water for Thilini's Home

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Running Water for Thilini's Home
May 2011

Thanks to the caring and generosity of Peter Suozzo from the USA, we have been able to provide running water to Thilini's Home. We constructed Thilini's home and provided electricity in 2009, but public water was not then available. Thilini and her mother daily carried basins of water from a nearby well. Besides the labour and inconvenience, such a limited supply of water also made good hygiene and health a major challenge. Recently however, the municipal "Water Board" has run a water line on the road near Thilini's home. Peter Suozzo volunteered the cost of the fees required by the Water Board for a connection and meter, as well as the cost of the piping, storage tank, and plumbing for a complete water system for Thilini's home.

Municipal water supply in rural Sri Lanka is rudimentary at best. Water is only provided for an hour or so early each morning, and pressure is very low. So a home must have a water storage tank, elevated, to provide a full-time gravity flow water supply. With the meter installed, the project required 50m (150 ft.) of pipe laid 12" underground from the meter to the home. We mounted a 500 litre tank atop the cement water closet, which we originally designed to support it. The incoming water line fills the tank each morning. From the tank, plumbing provides an internal and external tap on the water closet, as well as a shower.

Photos

Below are photos of the project:

Water meter at the road	Trenching near the water tank	Thilini and Mother helping
Final Touches	Finished	Plumbing Fixtures

Acknowledgement

Thanks again to Peter Suozzo for this achievement! Besides making life a little easier, running water will certainly improve the health and hygiene of Thilini and her mother. Thanks Peter!

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