What's New
(The documents in this page can also be found under
other sections.)
- Report of new dugwells under construction in West Bengal: Village Report July 2008
- Report of construction of new dugwells in West Bengal: Village
Report November 2007
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Publication 2007: Arsenic concentrations and bacterial contamination in a pilot shallow dugwell program in West Bengal, India J Environ Sci Health A Tox Hazard Subst Environ Eng. 2007 Jan;42(1):89-95. Hira-Smith MM, Yuan Y, Savarimuthu X, Liaw J, Hira A, Green C, Hore T, Chakraborty P, von Ehrenstein OS, Smith AH.
- News Report about death due to arsenic poisoning in West Bengal published in Ananda Bazar Patrika 29 January 2007 (English translation.pdf)
- Newsletter of 2006.pdf : January 2007
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Report on an interactive workshop held on 26th November 2006 on drinking water management ('Jawl Sawmporkey Alochona') in the arsenic afflicted villages of West Bengal.
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Comment on Rain Water Harvesting in Bangladesh
- July 2008: Construction of 10 dugwells is completed in February 2008. These dugwells were funded by Blue Planet Run and Rotary Club of Bloomfield and Glen Valley of New Jersey. Ten more dugwells are being completed by July. See the pictures above.
Two were funded by
Group Mosaique, Sagney, Canada, one each by
Rustam Stolkin, Jennifer and Philip Milner, London, UK and
David Kalman and Cecil Hudson, Seattle, WA and six were by other private donors of Project Well.
is provided by Aqua Welfare
Society, Kolkata. All these dugwells of PWSET3A are being constructed in the remote villages of Gaighata Block where the demand is high and it would take more than twenty years for any kind of pipeline water supply to be established because of its location far from any motorable road.
Project Well includes maintenance program of the dugwells. To adopt a dugwell please click here.