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Priority Programs/Projects
LOCAL WATCH
Low-cost
alternative wastewater treatment for communities and
households (LOCAL WATCH) is a sanitation system that
includes toilets, biogas digester septic tank,
baffled reactor, anaerobic filter, gravel filter and
lotus/fish pond.
PCWS developed LOCAL WATCH in response to the fact
that sanitation
is lagging behind in the Philippines as it is not a priority
of national and most local governments, NGOs,
communities, etc. partly due to the belief that
sanitation technologies like wastewater treatment
systems are expensive and complicated.
Ensuring Access to Safe
Water for Households in Communities Affected by
Floods in the Philippines
PCWS and the World Health
Organization, with support from the Spanish
Government, are jointly implementing a project on
promoting household water treatment and safe storage
in Eastern Visayas
and the Bicol Region, specifically in flood prone
communities with outbreaks of water-borne diseases
due to contamination of water sources.
The use of sodium hypochlorite 1.25% solution as a
water disinfectant is being promoted to treat
drinking water at point-of-use and to safely store
the treated drinking water to protect households
against waterborne diseases until more definite
solutions can be achieved in communities with
doubtful water sources.
 
Ferro-cement Houses with Wastewater Treatment and
Rainwater Harvesting Systems
These are demonstration projects
on how to build a ferro-cement
house with low-cost wastewater treatment and
rainwater harvesting systems.
They
show that simple, low-cost technologies help
conserve water, prevent pollution, and enable
families to adapt to climate change.
The demonstration project also show that
sanitation is neither expensive nor complicated and
is achievable even in
a difficult, congested,
flood-prone urban environment or in isolated peri-urban
and rural areas.
This project represents the
cumulative learnings of PCWS from its field-based
implementation experiences and its interactions with
households and communities.
PCWS hopes that this
demonstration projects could inspire the passing of
enabling local and national policies for both human
health and environmental protection.
Technical Assistance to Local Governments, NGOs and
Communities on Water Supply, Sanitation and
Hygiene (WASH)
PCWS
provides technical assistance to local governments,
communities and NGOs
to improve water supply, sanitation and hygiene. It
also undertakes
researches, trainings and consultancies in
partnership with relevant organizations.
PCWS addresses the lack of
knowledge, awareness and appreciation of low-cost
sanitation technologies among policy makers.
It also encourages
increased investments in sanitation and
the
development of enabling
policies.
Local
governments are called upon to include among their
priorities the implementation of WASH projects.
Aside from
responding to requests for technical assistance,
PCWS presents low-cost appropriate alternatives to
create positive changes. It
addresses
the need to make sanitation affordable to low-income
households.
Expanding the range of
water supply and sanitation systems presented to
communities and households provide them with more
options and information.
 
Action Researches with
Households
PCWS continues to do researches
with households on more appropriate designs of water
supply, sanitation and hygiene systems and how these
could be made more affordable to low-income
families.
Even after the
implementation of projects, the communities and
households are encouraged to maintain consultative
access to PCWS engineers, especially for those who
have acquired skills in building their own and their
community's water supply and sanitation systems.
Rainwater Harvesting Advocate
PCWS-ITNF and the WASH Coalition advocate for the
building of low-cost rainwater harvesting tanks in
public schools and offices in the Philippines.
KNOW MORE ABOUT THE WORK OF
PCWS-ITNF
PCWS-ITNF brochure
Ferro-cement technology
Country Water Action - Philippines
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