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Water Resource Assessment Form
The summary purpose of these questions is to facilitate discovery of: 1) Where your water comes from, 2) How you use it, 3) Where the water goes after you have used it, and 4) Is there enough water of sufficient quality for the desired uses.
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These questions address water QUANTITY
Does your community have enough potable water? All year? Only a portion of the year? If so, which months?
Does your community have enough water for bathing and washing dishes and clothes?
Does your community have enough irrigation water?
Does your community have enough water for animals?
Does your community have a sewage system that utilizes water to remove waste? If yes, then is there enough water to regularly flush the system?
Does each household have a sewage system that utilizes water to remove waste from the home? If yes, then is there enough water to regularly flush the system?
How much time is spent, average per household per day, gathering potable water? If drinking water plumbing is available to most homes in the community, then answer either "NA" or estimate the time spent by those who do not have potable water plumbed in their home.
Put a number on the effort per household required to gather enough water for drinking and household use. Use the currency you deem appropriate (distance traveled, time spent filtering, money spent, etc.).
Does the supply of water to cover all of the identified uses vary from season to season? If yes, please explain.
Page 2: These questions address water QUALITY
Is the search for clean drinking water a widespread and daily preoccupation among the people?
Does the community attribute health problems to poor drinking water?
What specific human diseases in the community are PERCEIVED to be associated with the drinking water?
What specific human diseases in the community are CONFIRMED to be associated with the drinking water sources? Please list the organizations or government authorities who performed the research and delivered the results. Links to data are very helpful if you can supply them.
At what times of year do specific diseases peak? For each disease identified, please list peak months or seasons.
What factors do you believe contribute to the spikes among the diseases you listed?
Is irrigation water a source of trouble for crops (for example, salty water harming foliage)?
Does the quality of water vary from season to season for the uses you have identified? If yes, please explain.
Page 3: These questions are intended to spur THINKING AT A WATER CATCHMENT SCALE. A catchment is the landscape above a water source that feeds rain towards the water source through gravity. It's the land that catches rain and funnels it towards your community.
Consider your water resources. 1) Where does the water come from that is found in those water sources? 2) Where has it travelled to arrive at the place where your community uses it? 3) When your community members are done using the water where does it go?
What conditions in the upstream headwaters do you believe are contributing to good or bad conditions in your community? Keep in mind the headwaters could be 100 kilometers distant and far into the hills.
Are the communities upstream of you urban or rural according to your own definition? Consider factors such as population density and the percent of ground cover that is paved.
Are there any social or political tensions between your community and those upstream or downstream of you that are traceable to the water supply?
What local, regional, and/or internationally-managed projects are operating in your area that target water quantity and quality? If you do not know whether projects exist in your area, simply write “unknown”.
What methods do people in your community use for securing water? For example, do they collect water from hand-dug wells with jars? Do they collect rainwater in barrels? Do they pay for water access?
Once water is collected, do your community members filter the water before or after it enters the container?
How much water-collection and water-cleaning innovation is occurring in your community? Please provide details if there are examples of innovation.
Do community members express hopelessness or cynicism regarding their water supply? This could be verbal or nonverbal expression.
Are there direct or indirect impacts on water quantity or quality from local religious or cultural customs? For example, some communities remove all grass around their home to keep away demon-possessed animals and this contributes to severe topsoil erosion into local rivers.
Page 4: These questions EVALUATE THE IMPACT of water problems on mission efforts
How much effort (time, money, stress, etc) do you, the local outreach coordinator, spend each week ensuring you have enough water for drinking, bathing, washing, and agriculture within your own household? If your time spent maintaining your water supply were cut in half how might your family and community efforts benefit from your freed-up attention?
If disciples in your care were able to reduce by half their daily effort securing water, how would this impact their attentiveness to Christian education?
If water stress was sustainably alleviated in your community what other projects would you be free to address?
How much effort (time, money, physical effort, etc) would you be willing to invest in the short-term in order to gain long-term freedom from the current costs of securing water?
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