ETHOS Technical Reports
Document Type
Report
Publication Date
10-3-2017
Abstract
In the summer of 2017, Paige Lazar, Daniela Lopez, and David Ramsey traveled to the village of Barombi Mbo, Kumba, Cameroon to work on and improve the existing water system and investigate expanding the system to include a community scale biosand water filter. Under that broad goal was to clean the catchment and correct the weir elevation that was raised to an undesirable height. Both of these tasks were completed with the help of the community. The team then explored the idea of constructing a community scale water filter. Due to the time and money constraints, the group decided not to build the filter during the 2017 summer. Instead, the team was able to plan, design, and draft a cost estimate for the water filter that could be completed in the summer of 2018. Most importantly, funding was tentatively secured for the project by the Kumba I City Council, the presiding governmental authority.
Additionally, the team bought new sand and gravel and buckets to revitalize the existing point-of-use biosand water filters that were contained in some houses around the community. The materials were sieved and washed to improve the quality of the water filters. The ETHOS group also created a recommendations document for OREPRID, a local NGO directed by Divine Kowa that is in partnership with ETHOS and the Barombi Mbo community, to help facilitate the development of the area. ETHOS wants Mbo Barombi to take full responsibility and ownership of the projects in the village once they are complete in order to maximize their impact and service life and that is included in the recommendation document.
eCommons Citation
Lazar, Paige E.; Lopez, Daneila; and Ramsey, David, "Cameroon: Dam Reconstruction and Water Filtration" (2017). ETHOS Technical Reports. 19.
https://ecommons.udayton.edu/ethos_reports/19
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