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Project of Dana, small village located
at the South of Amman on the road of the
Kings.
We question Khalid which is a volunteer
of the village having taken part in the
development and the application of the project.
"they gave with the whole of the
volunteers of the village a training"
Hydrotour: Did the village of
Dana receive a help of CARE in 1999, on
what carried this help?
Khalid: It is necessary to take up
the idea of the project at its beginnings.
In 1998 we create Dana Association for the
Development in order to obtain funds for
a project of irrigation. We were in competition
at the time with other associations of close
villages also postulating for a purse. Our
project was to build 3 600 meters of drain
with open sky in order to allow an agriculture
of subsistence to the villagers. It is finally
Dana association which gained the assistance
of CARE.
Hydrotour: How you are
you organized to accomodate the assistance
of CARE?
Khalid: The village counts 250 families,
it did not really have there an election
to decide which would be in load or not
project. Those which it are felt ready to
endorse the responsibility it naturally
did and the village community accepted.
Association counts 7 volunteers.
HY: Which was the rising
one granted by CARE for your project
KH: Initially, before the installation
of the project, they gave with the whole
of the volunteers of the village a training
concerning the management of the liquidities
in general (water and money). This type
of practice allows a true transfer of competences.
Following these 4 months of training course,
a first sum of 10 000 JDS (1 JDS = 1,33
€) was paid, followed of a second of
the same amount, to which a participation
of 3 000 JDS given by the village was added.
That is to say a total of 23 000 JDS for
the construction of the channels and their
maintenance during two years. During the
phase of construction of the channels, 3
representatives of CARE came each week to
control the projection of the project.
"the only problem is the division
of water between the peasants"
HY: Before did these channels
exist already a system of irrigation?
KH: Yes, there was of old channels,
but in insufficient quantities, sometimes
dug with same the ground and often out of
uses. We thus made the decision to build
the new ones without preserving those which
existed already.
HY: Which were the problems
encountered during and after the phase of
construction?
KH: Aucuns..., The only problem is
the division of water between the peasants
and the maintenance of the channels. It
sometimes happens to see arguments bursting
between the peasants upstream, who take
water without being concerned with those
which are downstream, and those downstream,
with which it remains often only one wee
of cat. The ideal would be to appoint somebody
with management of water (coordination between
the upstream and the downstream), but for
that one needs money... Idem for the maintenance
of the drains. The farmers often do not
have the means of maintaining them and nobody
wants to pay for the others. In a piece,
the channels are maintained by the owner,
if it is laid out to do it. Repairs are
thus made with the means of the edge or
are not made whole.
HY: Is there of another project
being studied?
KH: Yes, there is a project of extension
of the channels, bus not enough pieces is
still irrigated and today the needs grew.
But, it is more one project dreams of it
that with the study.
HY: And for drinking water?
KH: The fountain of the village was
the subject also of a help. It is an ONG
based in Amman which entirely rebuilt it.
The drinking water comes from the source
which feeds the irrigation canals by a closed
drain, and exclusively dedicated to this
use. The village counts 5 sources of running
water.
HY: The water of the village
east it regularly analyzed?
KH: Not, certain villagers complain
about renal problems, but aucuns bonds of
causality does not seem to be proven by
the doctors.
HY: is the project a success
in your eyes?
KH: Yes well on! The project is a
success. It made it possible to develop
an agriculture sufficient for the needs
for the village and it is what counts.
Subsidiary question
HY: did you already hear spoken
about the international year of fresh water?
KH: Not never...?!
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