The community of Los Quiscamotes in Honduras lacks access to clean drinking water. Their main water source, a hand pump, was contaminated. They currently use an unprotected spring. The design project aims to protect and sanitize the spring water source. The final design uses the spring water, which will pass through a protected spring box and then a biosand filtration system with a storage tank. This will provide the community with at least 20 liters of water per person daily, meeting WHO standards for drinking water quality and quantity.
Planning of Clean Water Distribution System To The Needs of The Community With The Utilization of Water Sources of Artesic Water Sources, Way Hula Hamlet, Liang Village, Salahutu District
The community of Los Quiscamotes in Honduras lacks access to clean drinking water. Their main water source, a hand pump, was contaminated. They currently use an unprotected spring. The design project aims to protect and sanitize the spring water source. The final design uses the spring water, which will pass through a protected spring box and then a biosand filtration system with a storage tank. This will provide the community with at least 20 liters of water per person daily, meeting WHO standards for drinking water quality and quantity.
The community of Los Quiscamotes in Honduras lacks access to clean drinking water. Their main water source, a hand pump, was contaminated. They currently use an unprotected spring. The design project aims to protect and sanitize the spring water source. The final design uses the spring water, which will pass through a protected spring box and then a biosand filtration system with a storage tank. This will provide the community with at least 20 liters of water per person daily, meeting WHO standards for drinking water quality and quantity.
The community of Los Quiscamotes in Honduras lacks access to clean drinking water. Their main water source, a hand pump, was contaminated. They currently use an unprotected spring. The design project aims to protect and sanitize the spring water source. The final design uses the spring water, which will pass through a protected spring box and then a biosand filtration system with a storage tank. This will provide the community with at least 20 liters of water per person daily, meeting WHO standards for drinking water quality and quantity.
Bianca Pinto, Haley Kujawa, Jean Janvier, Jason Wilkinson
Advisors: Dr. Brian Benham, David McCann
Background Constraints and Criteria Improved Spring Box
Table 1. Constraints and Criteria The worlds population is expected to reach 9.7 billion Constraints Criteria people by 2050 (UN DESA, 2015). The UN states that Cost < $10,000 Community ownership currently 783 million people do not have access to an Supply 12,000 L/day Locally accessible building materials improved source of drinking water, and 185 million use Water supply must be coupled with untreated surface water to meet their water needs (WHO, disinfection system 2016). The World Health Organization (WHO) sets the Water quality monitoring minimum quantity of drinking water per person at 20 liters Durability per capita per day (Guidelines for Drinking Water Quality, 2006). Providing this quantity of safe drinking water to the Design Alternatives future population will be a challenge. Table 2. Potential supply and sanitation solutions This design project aims to help one place affected by the Supply Sanitation lack of a sanitary water supply. The community of Los Rain cisterns Chlorine Quiscamotes in Danli, Honduras has recently had their main Treatment of well water Biosand Figure 4 Spring box dimensions water supply, a hand pump, contaminated by nearby Spring protection and treatment UV/solar latrines. They currently use the spring as the main point of Develop and improve spring access Membrane filtration Biosand Filter and Storage Tank collection, but the spring box is unprotected. The spring is also located down a steep ravine, with an elevation change Final Design of 31 feet over a short distance, and could cause physical The final design uses the spring, with a spring box for protection, injury when retrieving water. Mr. David McCann, an as the source of water. The water is then filtered through a employee and member of New Life Christian Fellowship biosand filtration unit with a storage tank. Some key aspects of (NLCF) brought attention to this problem and wanted to the design are as follows develop a solution. He decided to partner with the BSE Identical side-by-side biosand filtration columns to allow for department and the Honduras senior design team. The final continuation of water system when maintenance is occurring project aims to protect and sanitize a community water 12 m3 storage unit source, as well as improving access to the source. Solar powered pump to move water from spring box to biosand filtration Perforated pipe along the length of the biosand to distribute water and not disturb the schmutzdecke (biologically active layer) Improved access close to road (avoid steep ravine) Figure 5 Front and top view of biosand and storage tank dimensions. Water flows from left to right.
WHO Design Standards
No detectable E. coli or Fecal Coliform Bacteria in 100 mL samples Supply minimum 20 L/capita/day12 m3 storage unit
Figure 1 Location of Los Quiscamotes
Acknowledgements We would like to thank our advisor, Dr. Brian Benham, as well as Mr. David McCann for their continued support during the project. In addition, we would like to thank the BSE department and NLCF for helping sponsor a site visit in March 2017. References WHO, (2016). Drinking Water. Retrieved from http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs391/en/ UN DESA, (2015). World Population Prospects: The 2015 Revision. Retrieved from http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/news/population/2015-report.html Guidelines for Drinking Water Quality. (2006): Guideline Values for Verification of Figure 2A Contaminated hand Figure 2B Spring box Figure 3 Profile view of the proposed system looking downstream. pump Microbial Quality. Geneva, Switzerland: WHO
Planning of Clean Water Distribution System To The Needs of The Community With The Utilization of Water Sources of Artesic Water Sources, Way Hula Hamlet, Liang Village, Salahutu District