Hattitar, Nepal
For the past 3-4 years, the team has been working on a water collection project in Hattitar, Nepal involving a dam, pipeline system, and reservoir tank. The team just completed a comprehensive field assessment guide to better understand the details of the Fall 2020 construction of the original system as it relates to a new dam authorized and created by the local municipality. This December, the guide will be used for Hattitar community members to evaluate the as-built state of the system. The data gained from this assessment will inform the team’s next steps.
Our project in the Hattitar village of the Maijogmai (formerly Namsaling) Rural Municipality began in the Summer of 2019. With the help of the Namsaling Community Development Center, NCDC, the team met with the members of the community and did some basic surveying of the local spring source - the foundation of the project to aid water collection.This led up to the Winter 2019-2020 trip, a formal assessment trip dedicated to gathering more in-depth survey and design information about the spring source, and strengthening connection and communication with the community. When the team returned, the design began, with the goal being to implement a spring source protection to the reservoir tank section in the subsequent summer trip. The Summer 2020 travel team was preparing for the trip when the COVID-19 crisis forced us to stop travel. While saddening to the team, we kept moving forward with a remote implementation of the spring source protection to the reservoir tank section of the design with appropriate modifications.
Above photo is our community members in Hattitar, Nepal.
This photo is from a drone workshop held in Colorado.