Faisalabad Village
A village on the periphery of Faisalabad where around 1,000 people now drink filtered water.
Faisalabad, Punjab
Project history
The project was executed for a small village on the periphery of Faisalabad. Around 1,000 people were provided with clean drinking water. A single community filter placed in a village home can provide enough water for 10 people for a day.
1,000+
people served
Faisalabad
Faisalabad, Punjab
Before PAKVITAE
Major challenges
- Water supply relies primarily on three hand-operated wells and a borehole.
- The underground water table is polluted with faecal contamination and unfit for drinking.
- Open defecation, poor hygiene practices and dirty jerrycans and containers.
- Shallow wells carry a high amount of particulate matter.
- 90% of the settlement lacks access to electricity, so wells and the borehole are operated by hand.
- Mechanical pumping leads to shortages for a community of thousands.
- Bacteria and pathogens cause diarrhoea, cholera, dysentery and typhoid.
- Particulate matter has been linked to kidney-stone cases in children aged 1–12.
“Our kids, our women and all the people living in the village have never seen such a cheap and efficient way of filtering the water to make it clean and drinkable.”
Memories from the project
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