Rehabilitation of Eight Drinking Water Sources in the Okapi Wildlife Reserve

Water source after rebuilding.

“Water is life,” is a true statement, but in the tropics clean water is essential for a healthy life. The main objective of this development project was to rehabilitate eight water sources in the Okapi Wildlife Reserve to provide safe drinking water by building clean and well-protected sources of spring water for the local communities residing inside the Reserve. To safeguard the Okapi Wildlife Reserve and its biodiversity, it is important to do so with the involvement and support of local communities. If people are sick or lethargic, they can only focus on their daily needs and cannot look at big picture issues. To have discussions about future resource use, people need to be healthy and not be worried about the health of their children. In a survey of women living inside the Reserve conducted in 2016, their number one concern was access to clean water.  To read more, click here.