Providing Adequate, Sufficient and Affordable Drinking Water in Nahhalin amp;amp; Al Khader communities/ Bethlehem ltpgtltbrgt
ltspan style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif color: black"gtWASH facilities development is representing an
important issue for many actors Availability , accessibility and affordability
concern the village councils, the HHs and mainly women and related ministries and
agencies. All these interests are reflected by the planned intervention. ltbrgt
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The project was designed and built in reference to the secondary data provided
by the Palestinian government, WASH cluster vulnerability mapping that PARC
contributed in and according to validation visits and a concrete need
assessment that has been conducted by PARC recently where women actively
participated in the assessment.ltbrgt
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The project can be summarized by providing safe, sufficient and affordable
drinking water for Area C neighborhoods in Nahhalin and Al Khader. The
intervention's main activities are:ltbrgt
The installation of new drinking water distribution networks (about 6 km) and
HH connections (about 400) in two of Bethlehem communities (Nahhalin and Al
Khader). These communities and according to the mapping that was conducted by
the WASH cluster in cooperation with the partners showed that those two
communities deeply need this kind of intervention. This is due to the low water
consumption per capita in these communities. In both communities, Nahhalin and
Al Khader, the average drinking water consumption is 30-50 liter per capita per
day which is far below the average defined by WHO which is 100 liter per capita
per day. Moreover, The high prices of trucked water is an increasing burden on
the residents' shoulders especially in summer time when the weather becomes dry
and harsh, in such times, one cubic meter of drinking water approximately costs
around 20 NIS. Another important activity in this section, is the connection of
400 HHs (280 in Nahhalin and 120 in Al Khader) to the newly installed water
network, this will guarantee the provision of high quality, safe and affordable
water resource. In this case, it is expected according to PARC experience that
the average consumption of liters per capita per day will increase to reach 75
instead of 30-50. In addition the cost per cubic meter will decrease to be
around 5 NIS. This is an increase of 100% in consumption and decrease of 75% in
cost for the local residents. All these developed elements will be reflected on
the livelihood conditions of the targeted communities including health and
hygiene.ltbrgt
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PARC believes that the developed and reliable WASH infrastructures (Water and
Sanitation), will be reflected on the quality of livelihoods of the local
residents in the targeted communities more than anything else. It is highly
important to mention that the quality services deeply enhance the resilience of
the residents of these communities and decrease the chances of internal
migrations to the cities which is directly reflected on a more sustainable,
diverse, food secured and stable community in Palestine.ltbrgt
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The project is designed in a participatory and flexible way , and since water
related issues mainly affect women they were engaged in the assessment and
during implementation. Special attention will be given to track the level of
women satisfaction and improvements in their livelihoods through indicators and
MEAL plan.lt/spangt



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