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Water for People ing the water. Others sell food and snacks at the wellhead. And at every station, an individual – like Sumitra – earns a salary to collect and record water payments from villagers. ship of the project’s long-term operation. In 2006, the organization opened an office in Kolkata with a full-time country coordinator, Rajashi Mukherjee, to facilitate the work in the region. In the second most populous country in the world, Water For People is committed to help meet the most basic water and sanitation needs of thousands of India’s poorest. By partnering with local government entities, nongovernmental organizations, the local private sector and others, success will come, day-by-day, village-by-village. PE David Stevenson is a freelance writer who lives in Denver. He has participated in numerous community work projects with the people of the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, and the San Luis Valley in southern Colorado. Founded in 1991, Water For People is a Denver-based private, nonprofit international development organization that supports safe drinking water and sanitation projects in developing countries. Visit www.waterforpeople.org. a plastic toy factory that has since closed. He started out by delivering water to three families. Now that has grown to 50. On every delivery he attempts to sell the service to other families along his route. Sumitra, his wife, is the paid caretaker for the filter. She spends four hours every morning and three hours every evening operating the pump. She must periodically backwash the filter to ensure its effectiveness. She also keeps the platform clean throughout the day. The pump station has become the center of the community and even has a television to entertain women as they wait. Sumitra tries to make sure that women do not get too absorbed in their television viewing and lose their place in line. Their older son, Sudip, also helps at the filtration station and with deliveries. Aside from the water delivery, a variety of other business enterprises often emerge around the arsenic filters. There are vendors who sell jerry cans for carry- “ …a variety of other business enterprises often emerge around the arsenic filters. Day-by-day, village-byvillage The volunteer organization makes it a point to support its partners in West Bengal, who in turn work closely with communities. The goal is to obtain a commitment to each project from community members, enabling them to take owner- ” INSURANCE THAT YOUR POLLUTION SYSTEMS ARE PERFORMING AS DESIGNED Series DH3 Series DHII Series DH Manage the pressure or flow of your plant exhaust with The Dwyer Digihelic® Differential Pressure Control • Selectable Engineering Units in Pressure, Velocity and Flow • 2 SPDT Relays, 4-20 mA Output & RS-485 Communications for Process Datalogging & Graphing Dwyer Instruments, Inc. Michigan City, IN • phone: 1-800-872-9141• fax: 219-872-9057 • e-mail: lit@dwyer-inst.com www.dwyer-inst.com PLE05084Dwye.indd 1 OCTOBER2008 www.pollutionengineering.com 3/21/08 11:20:02 AM 31 http://www.waterforpeople.org http://www.dwyer-inst.com http://www.dwyer-inst.com http://www.pollutionengineering.com

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Pollution Engineering - October 2008 Contents The Editor’s Desk EnviroNews PE Events Legal Lookout Green Connections Clearing the Air Water for People There’s a New Show in Town Catching Wind for Clean Water Taking the Pressure off Blower Selection Pulsed Plasma Positive Redundancy Product Focus: Municipal Water Treatment Product Focus: Monitoring Equipment PE Products Classified Marketplace Advertisers Index State Rules

Pollution Engineering - October 2008

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