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Water Sanitation

The overall purpose to ensure water supply, irrigation, and sanitation services in Majdal Anjar at best level of services that are compatible to environmental, social, and economic availabilities.

Despite the fact that that Lebanon receive a lot of water precipitation, and plenty of natural resources , it still suffers from water use practice that cannot be afforded .Poor waste  management and poor water treatment will be discussed in this proposal (USAID Water and Development Country Plan for Lebanon,2016).

 Our product of this proposal can be divided into two branches:

·         Completing potable network infrastructure gaps.

·          Capacity building for the WEs in Majdal Anjar.

Lebanon is rich in water and has plenty of water sources, but suffering of Lebanon every year 283 million m3 water defect in 2017 expected to increase to 410 million m3 by 2025. This deficiency is due to many problems such as increasing the population size, random expansions of populations, climate change and also the influx of Syrian refuges. In addition to all of these factors , when water is served it is served contaminated with many aquatic microorganisms ,mixed with wastewater and even mixed with sand and other wastes .Consequently ,we must be sure that our water is sanitized  and its hygiene is maintained.

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Our water is contaminated with lots of microbes, and the water supply has been lacked even while the request continues.

High levels of rain fall and natural water resources have been found in Majdal Anjar, our village become miserable of the unreasonable way of using water, insufficient sewage monitors, which in its turn limit the presence of cleaned water. Majdal Anjar is one of the Lebanon villages that are still invalidated to supply dependable resource of water.

This conflict was reached after many causes that lead to a lot of side effects. First because of the unavailability of winter, and the over use of water especially for growth of the crops, this  lead to the water pollution for the source of water, second adding chlorine to the water in order to sanitize it will carry extra substances that changes the taste and structure of drinking water also in some cases it can cause poisons, and last the calcium based rocks are the collector of drinking water thus it will arrive from Chamssine  rich in Calcium that first left white precipitate behind it, and concerning human health calcium causes serious problems in kidneys ,and a slight increase of calcium in blood end with an immediate death .

Fighting pollution of Chamssine water which is the main resource in our village by studying and restricting the origin of pollution and planning for a corrective project to sanitize the water was our goal. This can be reached by concentrating on the management agenda, destruction of hard waste, grouping and treatment of internal and commercial uncleaned water, and limit farming overflow.

Three primary aims were intended by our proposal, which we will report them deeply as three primary branched components in the following:

Component 1: Improved water service delivery

The municipality of Majdal Anjar correlate with the MoEW to construct Majdal Anjar water project, which will build up the ministerial and working tasks of water service, in addition to the develop of the understructure to satisfy the water service delivery. For the additional refuges pressure, we will suggest a solution to survive with this overweight on water resources   , this will need a balance between the understructure work and the equity capital with the involved labor force .This will be continued with the prediction of a solution which limit the drainage of water and store it within reservoirs in a wide areas. In fact this project success is hanged by the   high   interaction of Majdal Anjar population with the project of water management.

 

 Component 2: Public outreach and civic advocacy

The implantation of the reconstruction of the water sector will be done by pushing the decision makers by the action of Majdal Anjar society which is stimulated by Majdal Anjar water project. The last will also increase the awareness of the village population regarding water utilization in addition to improve their function in the preservation of water cleanness.

Component 3: Private sector engagement and water sector financing

This step comes after the improving of infrastructure used to deliver water is to maintain the hygiene of water itself. nowadays the most frequent chemical used is the chlorine, but as mentioned before the high doses of chlorine lead to several unfavorable consequences .Chlorine Dioxide can be used as the new disinfectant for several factors, this chemical to become active need to be broken down through chemical reactions and it’s very important to know the amount of the products released .Fortunately, these compounds formed can be measured by simple cheap mechanisms and not toxic for humans.

Expected results: The interactions between the local Majdal Anjar water project and MoEW are supposed to end with an excellent dependable entry for a hygiene water and sewage water for all the village Lebanese citizens, thus the productivity of Majdal Anjar population water service can be achieved by upgrade water, wastewater, and soaking activities, and solving the conflicts that are suspended with the presence of Syrian refuges .the shown consequences happened directly after the suggestion of our proposal, but, our goal will become wider in the following years.

Qualifications: In October 19,2016 USAID funded a project called ”Water project of Lebanon “ including the municipalities in central Bekaa of Bwarej , Majdal Anjar, Marj , Kab Elias ,and Meksii, this project expected to complete for 5 years .After the meeting was done each village know what techniques and stratigies  are used to increase the access of  clean , reliable source of drinking water for Lebanon citizens.

Through this proposal, today we are able to improve the water quality in a very effective way and with the least costs. Water managing will be more under focus, what chemicals must be used, and what techniques to follow so that we get the cleaned water.

Budget and Costs:

With the help of MoEW our municipality will be able to ensure the responsible compounds to build a new infrastructure, a high number of architectures for working, the number of machines that are need to have full hyiegened water, and the amount of chemicals that is need for our water resource. To have potable and high quantity of water our project costs one hundred million $ per year in 2019   which will decrease to 500 thousand $ in 2020 thus if we divide the money per month it will cost 41.6 thousand $ which is going for a two- year period.

By our proposal Majdal Anjar village will be able to have a complete developed map of potable and preserved water, and the number of healthy people wills come over diseases thus less water causing death.

Now we have the power to save lives, to drink fresh water, and to conserve our God’s favor. Help Us Create The Change Today! Help preserve water. In support of One Drop.  Accessible water to all. Make A Difference. Give Access To Safe Water. Social art. These Moms Need You. Help our village Majdal Anjar.

Thanks to MoEW of my country Lebanon with its big heart ,to our mayor of Majdal Anjar Saaed Yassin and his efforts with us , and to every single person that help in the success of this proposal.

Please of you have any question or inquiry about our proposal don’t hesitate to contact us in our office: street 5, Majdal Anjar, Bekaa  , Lebanon. Or you can call on :+96179140315,+96171546124.