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HISG Provides Clean Water to Thousands in Darfur

One of the new filters. The filter draws water from the well on the right, and can filter up to 30,000 gallons so that an entire community will have water that is safe to drink.

DARFUR, SUDAN- HISG and Darfur's Humanitarian Aid Commission have worked together to install two high-volume water filters in the war-torn region.  The location for each filter was carefully selected in order to provide safe water for hundreds of thousands of men, women and children.

Six years of conflict in Darfur have created an enormous population (more than 2.7 million) of internally displaced persons (IDPs).  Many of these people have migrated into crowded IDP camps, and the large resettlements have placed impossibly high demands on the area's meager water supply.  Even the rainy season brings no relief, because with so many people living in such cramped conditions, the water does not stay clean for long.  The polluted water spreads diseases such as cholera quickly through entire villages.

The World Health Organization estimates that 80% of all disease is related to inadequate or unsafe water.  The two new water filters will provide a solution to this problem for hundreds of thousands of people in Darfur.  Each filter is able to purify and pump 30,000 gallons of water each day, and because the units are solar-powered, each gallon of filtered water costs less than a penny.

Besides supplying water for the people of Darfur, this project has produced a distinct shift in how the Humanitarian Aid Commission (HAC) views disaster relief.  HISG has worked to keep officials from the HAC involved in the process from the very beginning, and the result is that the local government officials have taken ownership of the project, and are taking responsibility for the long-term use and success of the filters.  Click here to read more about HISG's Darfur Initiative, or click here to support HISG's relief and development operations.