In distributing the bore holes we considered the population of an area, the possibility of maintaining the bore-hole and the need in the area.

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1 Bore Holes Report January 2016 The bore-holes were drilled with the Geographical area of Panyangara Catholic Parish. Panyangara Catholic Parish is in Kotido District. Kotido District is in the Northern region of Uganda. The population of Kotido District is 154, 604 (census 2014). Panyangara Catholic Parish comprises of Panyangara Sub-county and Nakapelimoru Sub-county. The combined population of Panyangara Sub-county and Nakapelimoru Sub-county is 67,392. The population of Panyangara sub-county is 46,250 and the population of Nakapelimoru sub-county is 21,142. Within this area there is no running People depend on water from bore-holes and shallow dams that people dig during dry season. There are also no permanent rivers. All rivers are seasonal. They fill up during rainy season and dry up during dry season. Consequently the problem of water is a perennial problem. In the past different organisations have put up huge solar empowered pumps in Watakau and Panyangara but they are not working In distributing the bore holes we considered the population of an area, the possibility of maintaining the bore-hole and the need in the area. Location No. of Bore holes Targeted group Napumpum Heath Centre It serves the health Centre III and the community Nakaal Lokitelarengan Nakongumutu Central It serves the Nakaal It serves the Lokitelarengan Panyangara Rikitae serves Kalosarich Primary school and the community. Health Centre III serves the health The health Centre has maternity, but no With the bore-hole the mothers can fetch water using buckets. There was no bore-hole in this village There was only one borehole for a very big community. The new borehole adds water accessibility. The school now has access to clean water for the pupils Previously the pregnant mothers had to carry their Bore hole. works well. It has little water but it serves well. It

2 Panyangara Secondary School centre III and the community. It is the only bore hole in the area serves the students of Panyangara Secondary school. It has very good Potongor Namukur The bore-hole serves the Longelep and Namukur Potongor Loriu serves the Kadocha Watakau Kairwata It was intended to serve the Kairwata within Watakau village. Watakau Masula I It of Masula I in Watakau. Watakau Lokore It of Lokore in Watakau village. Lookorok Nyakwae was meant to serve Lookorok Primary school, Lookorok Health Centre II and the community. Lookorok Kalebur of Kalebur own water when they came for maternity services. a big relief. The school has a population of about three hundred student. Now they have water in the school This community now has three bore-holes. a big relief to the women who had to walk far for The drilling started but they never reached the It is a big relief to the people here. Watakau village has bigger problem of water than other villages. Watakau village has big population but now enough The borehole is a big help to the people. There is need for more bore-holes here but it was not easy for the surveyor frequently breaks down due to over use, but it is serving well. working well and it is well maintained by the school. It has enough water but the population in the area is very huge. No bore-hole has not worked since it was finished. It is among the bore holes that were recently finished. works well but it has very little

3 to find One has to pump for at least five minutes before the water starts coming. Lookorok Kopusang 1 in the new settlement area. Lookorok Kopusang 2 also served the people in the new settlement area. Kadokini Riamiriam of Riamiriam With peace in Karamoja people are opening up new settlement areas. These areas need more boreholes. It was very difficult to get water in the area. works but there is not much This bore hole also has little We decided to put two bore holes in that areas because there is no other source of water and one bore hole could not serve because there is little water.

4 Kadokini Primary School serves Kadokini primary school and the village of Ngonyir.. Kangorok Kangorok in a new settlement are of Kangorok. General Conditions of the Bore-holes During dry season most bore-holes do breakdown due to over use. We are therefore glad to note that in general the bore-holes are However, we also noted that the cemented base breaking off very fast. In the next one year it will all be gone. Challenges No water in areas where the need is great There were some places where people are suffering a lot due to lack of water but unfortunately the surveyor could not find underground This problem affected mainly Nakapelimoru Sub-county. In Watakau village for instance there are over eleven thousand people staying there but the surveyor could not get any water within the village. The drilling team There were a lot of challenges faced with the drilling team. Communication with them was almost impossible. Whatever we agreed with them was never followed up. They hardly reported the progress of their work. There work was slow and haphazard. The area where they were working is vast. It would

5 have been helpful if they concentrate in one area and then move to a new area after finishing one area. They did not seem to have any programme that they follow. Political interference There were also some cases where the politician interfered with the work. They wanted to control the decision where the bore-holes are drilled so that they may claim that they are the ones who have drilled. However, the community resisted the political interference. Water office The Kotido water office was also not very helpful. They are supposed to guide with the government policy, but all that they are interested in is to collect money from the beneficiaries. They made it very difficult for us to collect the maintenance fees from the beneficiaries, because they also wanted the same money.