Results of the monitoring of water tank disinfection

I am Shaher Al-Lahem. I have been working for JEN as an engineer since December 2013.

Since February 2015, as a member in charge of monitoring and evaluation, I have been surveying the effect and efficiency of JEN activities, projects, and programs. Today, I would like to share one of JEN’s important activities.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Disinfection of water tank]

The purpose of this activity is to keep water, which the refugees drink, safe and clean.
Trucks carrying water run all around the refugee camps and fill the tanks with water every day. Owing to hot weather and dust in air, there is a possibility of spreading of bacteria everywhere in the tank and change in water quality, thereby causing bacterial outbreak or increase in deposit and algae.

In the past, JEN used to disinfected public water tanks of the 3rd, 4th, 5th section at least twice a year as a folk group supporting water–hygiene activity. Later on, as more and more people came to have their own tank, JEN also began to disinfect private water tanks. The total number of water tanks disinfected in these 3 sections has amounted to 1,000.

The maintenance team collects water tanks from people and disinfects them. First, tanks are washed with soap and water, then disinfected with chlorine, and finally rinsed. JEN works carefully not to leave chlorine of more than 1.8ppm.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Disinfecting water tanks]

There used to be a problem with people not leaving their tanks to us with the fear of the tanks not being returned to them or being exchanged to old ones.
In order to solve such problem, efforts were made to disseminate the right information to people as well as the merits and importance of tank disinfection.

Originally as we had built up relationship of mutual trust between people of 3rd-5th section, we succeeded in persuading all of them. And this time we could return water tanks to everyone at the end of working day as well.

This time, I am in charge of surveying the chlorine rate left in the tank after disinfection. I aim to obtain a numerical value as exactly as possible and let people know the water in the tank is safe to drink. Moreover, we can have a strong motivation every time we obtain a good result.

I believe that monitoring an index and evaluating result of work is indispensable in providing a supporting hand to the refugees properly.

Shaher Al-Lahem

 

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