Changes

The midday meal cook of the school, Muniri Bai, says that “Earlier I used to bring water from home for cooking, but now, I use water from the newly constructed system. This has reduced the burden of carrying water and also saves my time and energy.”

Schoolchildren are overjoyed as they now have water within the school premises. “The ‘Pressurized Recharge Wells: Ensuring Water Availability in Saline Water Areas’ project has so far supported two HPRWs in Mewat district and work on a third HPRW is underway,” says Parth Gohel the project leader. A similar structure constructed in Jargali village, 20km away from Sukhpuri School, has ended years of water misery in the school. The effective functioning of these models will provide the basis for government to consider further replication of the HPRW innovation.