Project Well is a non-profit organization registered in California, USA. The project involves providing arsenic safe drinking water to the arsenic afflicted villages of West Bengal, India. 

It is matter of years to extend pipeline water in the remote areas of West Bengal . Arsenic safe water is being provided by constructing inexpensive, easily adaptable,
improved dug wells
. Disinfectant is used to control the growth of bacteria.
(Picture below is of dugwell #PW75 in Gaighata, India, constructed in 2008)

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With the help of the local NGO, Aqua Welfare Society, at the village level, sustainable programs are being developed. The dugwells are managed by the local people by forming beneficiary committees. Maintenance include disinfecting the water, sending the water sample periodically to check bacterial count and arsenic concentration, and collection of minimum contribution from the user community for the maintenance of their own dugwells.

 

Sponsors

Number of Dugwells - 92

Construction Year

Blue Planet Run/Peer Water Exchange

10

2008

Mosaique, Quebec, Canada

2

2008

Project Well private donations

8

2008

Blue Planet Run/Peer Water Exchange

20

2007

Kallol Club of NJ

1

2007

Mosaique, Quebec, Canada

3

2007

Mosaique, Quebec, Canada

3

2006

Blue Planet Run/Peer Water Exchange

10

2005

Sanskriti Inc, MD

1

2005

Capital Vineyard, Wellington, NZ

1

2004

Project Well private donations

7

2004

Rotary Club of Danville/Sycamore, CA & Rotary International

20

2003

Bay Area Prabasi, CA

5

2002

Bay Area Prabasi, CA

1

2001

 

TO ADOPT A DUGWELL CLICK HERE. ALL DONATIONS ARE TAX EXEMPT.


Update: 15th May 2008. Please see our What's New section for latest updates and additions.

 

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