REPORT on Water quality assessment and Recommendation on treatment solutions, monitoring the water quality in Huong Khe and Vu Quang Districts, Ha Tinh Province

REPORT on Water quality assessment and Recommendation on treatment solutions, monitoring the water quality in Huong Khe and Vu Quang Districts, Ha Tinh Province Conducting Consultative group: 1) Doan The Loi, group leader 2) Dang Ngoc Hanh, group member 3) Tran Duc Anh, group member HANOI: APRIL 2011 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS I. INTRODUCTION, OBJECTIVE, TASKS, EXPECTED OUTCOMES AND CONDUCTING METHOD.......................................................................................................2 1.1. Introduction .........................................................................................2 1.2. Objective and Tasks of the Consultative Group.................................3 1.3. Expected Outcomes: ..........................................................................3 1.4. Conducting method:.............................................................................4 II. OVERVIEW AND CURRENT SITUATION OF THE SURVEY AREA.......................6 2.1. Economic and Social situation............................................................6 2.2. The current situation of water resources and usage of water for drinking and daily activities ........................................................................9 2.3. Organization of implementing the project (building wells, filter tanks and latrines)..............................................................................................12 III. RESULTS OF THE ANALYSIS AND, EVALUATION OF WATER QUALITY AND RECOMMEND ON APPROPRIATE SOLUTIONS..................................................14 3.1. Evaluate water quality base on the results of analysis in the laboratory of water samples ...................................................................................14 3.2. Propose some solutions to water treatment works..........................15 3.3. Recommendation on the specific solutions to treat and monitor the water quality in the affected flood areas...................................................18 IV. RECOMMENDATIONS ON DESIGNING AND BUILDING WELLS, FILTER TANKS AND LATRINES......................................................................................................19 4.1 Latrine works.....................................................................................19 4.2. Wells and filter tank..........................................................................20 4.3. Organization and implementation....................................................20 V. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS...........................................................20 Annex 1:...................................................................................................................................22 General information about the water sample selected to analyse..........................................22 a) Samples at Huong Khe district ............................................................22 b) Samples at Vu Quang district ..............................................................23 I.At Huong Khe district..............................................................................24 Annex 3: The result of water samples analysis......................................................................29 I. Huong Khe district.................................................................................29 II. Vu Quang District..................................................................................36 Annex 4:...................................................................................................................................44 I. Communes of Huong Khe district........................................................44 II. The communes of Vu Quang District ..................................................45 Annex 5:...................................................................................................................................47 Questionnaire collecting the information about the evaluation of water quality in Huong Khe and Vu Quang districts, Ha Tinh Province.....................................................................47 A. General information ............................................................................47 B: Detailed information about clean water and environmental sanitation49 I. INTRODUCTION, OBJECTIVE,TASKS, EXPECTED OUTCOMESAND CONDUCTING METHOD 1.1. Introduction In early October 2010, the two consecutive severe floods (from 1st to 6th Oct and from 14th -18th Oct) happened in the five provinces of the Central Vietnam including Nghe An, Ha Tinh, Quang Binh, Quang Tri and Thua Thien Hue. Ha Tinh was the place that suffered from the most serious damage, in which Huong Khe and Vu Quang, the poor districts of Ha Tinh province, were damaged very seriously. Floods made the people, who were already poor became poorer and influenced greatly their life, daily activities and production. According to the report of the project on relief and livelihood recovery after flood in Ha Tinh province conducted by Oxfam, 15 communes of Vu Quang and Huong Khe districts were selected by Oxfam for emergency relief and recovery after flood (7 communes of Huong Khe districts are Loc Yen, Huong Thuy, Hoa Hai, Phuc Dong, Ha Linh, Phuong Dien and Phuong My and 8 communes of Vu Quang district are Vu Quang town, Huong Minh, Huong Quang, Huong Tho, An Phu, Duc Linh, Duc Giang and Duc Lien). To continue to carry out the activities supporting building latrines and wells as per the approved plan, the consultative group conducted the survey, evaluated the quality of the water resource, recommended the solutions to treat and monitor the quality of the water for daily activities of 10 communes as per Oxfam’s recommendations. Oxfam decided to support: + Huong Khe district: 120 wells; 120 latrines (for Ha Linh, Phuong Dien, Phuong My and Loc Yen communes) + Vu Quang district: 150 wells và 150 sand filter tanks; 150 latrines (for Duc Lien, Huong Tho, Duc Giang, Duc Linh and An Phu communes) The households eligible for assistance haven’t had or already had wells, their latrines were destroyed after the two floods and they are poor households and are usually affected by floods. Among the activities for assistance, Oxfam appreciate the solutions that maximize the usage of local labour and use materials at the localities and maximize working to increase income for people. To carry out the above activities well, to ensure scientific characteristics and in accordance with the real situation of of locality, the consultative group is responsible for 2 conducting the survey, evaluating and giving recommendations on the best solution to reach the objective of the project. The tasks of the consultative group were stated in the TOR and the outline for activities approved by Oxfam, specifically: 1.2. Objective and Tasks of the Consultative Group Objective 1: Establish a baseline of water quality through analysis water samples in 10 communes of Vu Quang and Huong Khe districts (list water samples in communes, see Annex 1). Objective 2: To recommend necessary interventions, including advocacy issues to Oxfam and partners in order to improve water quality and monitor water quality in flood affected areas. To achive the above objective, the consultative group implemented the following activities: + From March 13 to March 22, 2011, the consultative group conducted the survey on the real situation of 10 communes of 2 districts. - The consultative group worked with Oxfam’s project management board in Vu Quang and Huong Khe districts to catch the general information and listen to the report on the results of the implementation of the project, its advantages and disadvantages. The group discussed the plan and selected the place for the survey. - Conducted the survey to identify the information according to the outline submitted to Oxfam. - Selected the place to take the water sample; took the sample, made the sample record (focusing on the places where there is problem with water source as per people’s reflection). Considered, evaluated the quality of the treatment constructions that are currently applied in localities, people’s experience in water treatment and people’s preparedpareness and prevention against floods. 1.3. Expected Outcomes: According to the TOR and the research outline, the consultative group achieved the following main results: Result 1: The report on analysis of the water quality test of 05 communes of Huong Khe and 05 commune of Vu Quang. Result 2: Evaluate designing dug wells, latrines and recommend necessary solutions to help Oxfam’s management board in two districts to implement projects efficiently. Result 3 : On the basis of the result of sample analysis, recommend the specific solutions to treat and monitor the water quality in the affected flood areas. Result 4: Training on community supervision. Guide for managment, reparing the dug wells and solutions to cope with during flood happening. 3 1.4. Conducting method: The methods used during the research include: - Statistics, collecting the available documents, - Group discussion, - Participation of community, - Surveying, measuring, evaluating, taking the photos of the scene, - Analysing quality, - Comparison, evaluation, measuring, designing. The methods of implementation are described in the logical research framework as follow: 4 ... - tailieumienphi.vn