Al Noor Building Water Wells

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Clean water is essential for life, but billions of people today, still do not have access to safe drinking water.

As well as disease and death, a lack of clean water close to people's homes also affects their time, livelihood and quality of life. Women and children especially often spend hours in a daily ritual, walking many miles just to collect water. More often than not, even this water is dirty and unsafe, but there is no alternative.

There are social repercussions too. Carrying heavy water containers is an exhausting task, which consumes valuable time and energy that could be better spent elsewhere. It prevents women from doing vital domestic or income generating work and often stops children from going to school, therefore perpetuating the poverty cycle.

In a very real sense therefore, the universal provision of easily accessible, safe, clean water is one of the biggest and most important challenges facing the world today. The response from developed nations, however, has been less than overwhelming.

No words can express the need for water wells in Zanzibar and Pemba Islands, all of our Water Well projects are constructed in densely populated villages to supply water to masjids and to the entire village. High quality material and powerful submersible pumps with a capacity to fill 120 litres of water per minute are used.