Qatar Charity Mauritania continues its efforts to provide safe drinking water through drilling and equipping wells, whether land-surface or artesian wells depending on the need of people and the nature of the land. As and when possible, wells are equipped with solar-powered pumps.
Recently completed was an artesian well equipped with a solar-powered pump to serve 800 families (nearly 4,000 people) in Katawan(HodhEchChargui Region). Qatar Charity has also begun drilling another artesian well atEmHiad Municipality inHodh El Gharbi Region and it will be equipped with a solar-powered pump and a large water tank to serve 4,000 people. The total cost of these two wells is approximately QAR 600,000 (USD 165,000).
Earlier in 2015, Qatar Charity Mauritania completed drilling and equipping five smaller land-surface wells, at a cost of QAR 225,000 (USD 62,000). Thousands of people will take advantage of these wells particularly those who live in the villages of Satol, Amoura and Takvitin TararzhRegion, in addition to the villages of Dobounka and AbondeatBraknaRegion.These land-surface wells were each provided withreinforced concrete tanks and covers. Boundary walls protecting the wells were built seven metersaway from the well. Each well is connected to water drainage tubes, size 63 to drain the unsafe water away from the well.The internal diameter of the well is 1.4 meters, while the outer one is 0.7 meters high, with a thickness of 0.45 meters for each well.
Qatar Charity Mauritania's rural water program has drilled thirteen wells in rural areas during the past year at a cost of more than QAR 2.3 million (USD 632,000). Its plans for the remainder include an additional ten wells at a cost of QAR 2.6 million (USD 715,000) in order to reach even larger numbers of isolated rural communities facing the serious effects of the drought experienced by Mauritania over the past years.
Qatar Charity Mauritania's multi-sector approaches prioritize helping communities geographically remote from the urban centers, suffering from drought and those where large numbers of disadvantaged classes which suffer from the remnants of slavery.
