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Biosand Filters and Brick tanks: A water solution in Gomba, Uganda

"When these filters came to us to address the contaminated water issue, with it came environmental solutions too. Using firewood everyday to provide water for a school with 260 pupils is not sustainable at all. Biosand filters are a very sustainable solution. Gomba does not have forests and the trees we have, the people usually cut to get firewood and charcoal. The schools are a big consumer of firewood and so having the Biosand filters eliminates that need and helps us keep our trees. There have been frequent droughts recently which was not common in the past. If we preserve the trees, our environment wins."

--Godliver Businge from Uganda Women's Water Initiative (UWWI).

Photos by Joel Lukhovi | Survival Media Agency

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"When these filters came to us to address the contaminated water issue, with it came environmental solutions too. Using firewood everyday to provide water for a school with 260 pupils is not sustainable at all. Biosand filters are a very sustainable solution. Gomba does not have forests and the trees we have, the people usually cut to get firewood and charcoal. The schools are a big consumer of firewood and so having the Biosand filters eliminates that need and helps us keep our trees. There have been frequent droughts recently which was not common in the past. If we preserve the trees, our environment wins." <br />
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--Godliver Businge from Uganda Women's Water Initiative (UWWI). <br />
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Photos by Joel Lukhovi | Survival Media Agency