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EcoCARE Pacific Trust - Water for Life

Water for Life

Safe water is a basic requirement and right of all people yet sadly for many people it is not always available. In many places on the low lying islands of Ha’apai in Tonga for example, sea water encroachment during storm incidence leads to raw effluent entering the ground water lens contaminating ground water and resulting in outbreaks of Typhoid and other water borne diseases.

Implementation

With financial support from Rotary (Tonga Rotary, Christchurch Rotary Club and Queensland Rotary) EcoCARE has been able to establish a water filtration and desalination plant at the hospital in Ha’apai and we are currently in the process of doing similarly at Ha’apai High School and Princess Pilolevu Taufahau High Schools.

Education Program

As is the case with all EcoCARE programs we have included a significant education component to our water filtration campaign.
Implementation in schools will enable the filters to not only act as educational resources by schools using the resources in physics, chemistry, biology, health sciences, maths/statistics lessons and so on but maintenance schedules can be met through electronics and mechanical workshop class requirements. Over time the understanding gained by students will filter into the broader community so that there is a general understanding of water related illness and filtration plant maintenance.