Guher is an agricultural village in a dry and semi-arid region of Gujarat, India. The village not only lacks basic means of harvesting rainwater for drinking and agriculture, but also lacks basic sanitation facilities. The community requires water and sanitation infrastructure to grow and develop.

CareerBuilder.com's project will protect the health of Guher residents, make their village a more livable place, and decrease their overall water scarcity.

Guher is a poor, remote village bordering the Kutch desert of Gujarat, India. There is no plumbing or irrigation in the village as all agriculture and water needs are reliant on the monsoon rains.

Agriculture is the major occupation of the villagers in Guher, and the majority of families live on $1–$2 a day. The region is dry and semi-arid and agriculture is essentially rain-fed. In order to have access to water, the community needs to develop water sources in the village itself.

In addition, sanitation is a major problem in Guher. There are no toilets, which means villagers have to walk relatively long distances to relieve themselves in the open. This lack of basic sanitation facilities results in a dirty and unhygienic village, vastly increasing the possibility of a debilitating outbreak of disease.

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Direct Impact of Your Project

Roof rainwater harvesting systems provides Guher with the infrastructure to collect and store 20,000 liters of clean, drinking water for use during the dry season.

The number of trips and amount of time required for village women to collect water will be greatly reduced. As a result of their no longer having to repeatedly travel long distances, affected women will save about 3–4 hours a day and may instead use this time to earn extra income for their families.

Extended Impact on Your Partner Community

Reliable access to clean, drinking water will greatly increase the health and hygiene of the Guher community. Drinking water collected from the monsoon rains will lessen cases of water-borne disease.

Extra water collected will allow families to irrigate their small plots of land, and grow and sell crops. This will provide Guher families with an additional source of income.