Water, in the right order.
A borehole that still works in year five starts long before the drilling rig arrives. Our water work follows a strict sequence: map, organise, rehabilitate.
1. Map
Water-point mapping across our working areas: where each point is, what condition it is in, who uses it, who owns it, and how it behaves across seasons. A shared, honest map is the first piece of shared infrastructure.
2. Organise
Where a community wants change, we help form a Water User Committee: agreed rules for fees, maintenance and fair access, written down and signed. The committee — not Baraare — owns the water point’s future.
3. Rehabilitate
Broken infrastructure comes first: borehole rehabilitation, procured from licensed contractors, with Baraare entering as a sub-grantee in consortium with experienced water organisations. New boreholes come later, once the track record is earned.
Three conditions. No exceptions.
No contract is signed and no work starts until all three are in place.
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A signed community water agreement
Fees, maintenance duties and access rules agreed by the community and signed before contracting.
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A professional hydrogeological & siting study
No rehabilitation or drilling decision without a qualified groundwater assessment.
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Government permits
Every required permit in hand before works begin. Do no harm includes doing things lawfully.
We do not drill. Licensed contractors do — under professional supervision, community agreement and permits. Baraare’s role is organisation, records and accountability: the parts that decide whether a water point still works in year five.
[FIELD PHOTO — water-point mapping, 2027–2028]
Reserved for our own fieldwork, once Phase 2 begins.