You are the expert who has been contracted by CAT, in consultation with the water committee of Tamala and
the local government. They need your advice, and they want you to prepare a report for them which analyses
the information they have gathered and shows how they can obtain the quantity and quality of water needed
from the different sources available to all sectors of the community. You are not expected to estimate any
costs of your proposed interventions/technical solutions; hydraulic designs are not required, nor construction
details of any of the proposed works. Your client wants you to provide them with some quantitative
information to show how they can meet present and future demand. They want to know how much water you
expect each intervention to provide to its intended users, especially in the dry season, expressed as
litres/person/day and number of users. It is not considered that a pumped system which can reach all users
will be feasible, so you will need to consider each sector separately. You must also assess the potential health
benefits of the project, through improving access to water and the quantity and quality available. Finally, the
rationale for the project should be presented in the form of a logical framework (logframe).
Your submission should include the following sections:
1. An analysis of the status of the community water supply and baseline health conditions with respect to
water-related disease. (15 marks)
2. A list of potential benefits to health and wellbeing of the proposed intervention. Be as specific as you can in
terms of water-related diseases. (15 marks)
3. Calculations of present and future demand. You must justify the quantities that you propose. (10 marks)
4. A table of recommended technical solutions to improve access to an adequate supply of water for domestic
use for Tamala and the outlying communities. For each sector, provide the following information:
a. A brief description of the solution(s) and how it/they would be implemented. b. An indication of the
quantities that could be supplied. (20 marks)
5. In a separate table, for each recommended water supply solution in (4), describe: a. The water quality
parameters that you consider important.
b. A potential household water treatment technology for users of that source (if
appropriate) with justification.
c. Considerations and assumptions for the sustainability of (b). (20 marks)
6. A logframe to show how your proposed activities to improve community water supply will result in improved
health and wellbeing in Tamala, Kukra, Bratana and Koti. This should identify your assumptions, and also
propose criteria and metrics for monitoring and evaluation. Your logframe must fit onto two sides of A4. (20
marks)
Important note:
This is a test of your ability to analyse the information provided and devise solutions to the problem, checking
their feasibility using some simple calculations. Long, wordy answers repeating information from the lecture
notes or the literature are not needed. Concise summaries, lists and tables are all that are required as
deliverables, though you must justify your choices. There are no unique solutions, and the desired outcomes
could be achieved in different ways. The best solutions are those which pay closest attention to the data
provided, though bear in mind that not all the information provided is necessarily relevant.