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Women carrying concrete blocks on heads for the project .
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Variety of containers to be filled.
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Waste not want not-elderly lady catching leaking water .
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Concreter Jose putting finishing touch to facility
Constructed over three days at a small spring on a hill site in Oecusse , the enclave surrounded by Indonesian West Timor , the three combined projects
comprised: (1) drinking water for the community from one source at 5litres a minute
and now capable of filling 4 x 5litre bottles a minute from a 1100 litre tank;
(2) comprising ‘mandy' and wash table supplemented by a second smaller supply
with a tap to keep the mandy full; and (3) all waste water and overflow from the
tank at night captured on the cement slab and then via 500m of 1” pipe to two x
2000 litre concrete in ground tanks in the garden. The overflow from the
water tank alone will be in excess 3000 litres a night plus waste water during
the day from the washing chores.
The first two components
will service the 120 families in the community for domestic use, and the excess
and waste will be used by the 24 families involved in the garden in this area.
The total cost of all material was $1200 or $10 per family.
Photos and details from Graeme Hockey , of Darwin , who has made 11 trips to Timor Leste in recent years in connection with various projects , one being a bamboo long drop toilet he designed. The so called mandy in this series of photographs is another invention of his - at another village, where there was a better supply of water , five of them were built in a line .
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