POUL DUE JENSEN FOUNDATION WATER Today, nobody has to walk further than 100 metres to get safe drinking water in those villages. This means that safe water is the easiest option. But the system also depends on the community taking responsibility for their own system. “It’s quite different what works and what doesn’t in the different villages. Some of them don’t clean the solar panels, others don’t clean the water storage properly. In some villages the revenue recollection works fine, in some of them, this is an issue, especially if there is no follow-up by the local authorities. So, what we are doing is basically revisiting all villages and revisiting the communities.” To improve the quality of future projects, Sunlit Future will organise training and exposure visits for the community members and operators to villages where a community-led rural piped water supply scheme is successfully managed by the community members. Nils Thorup visited the village Kotagarh block in Odisha in February 2018 to inspect the installations Photo: Sunlit Future The Fixit and Repair project officially runs until June 2019, and will be followed by a project reaching out to even more villages in the three areas with safe water. In Odisha, we’ll reach out to 75 new villages, 10 in Maharashtra, and 4 in Spiti Valley. 21
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