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Community Background: The project is located in the Erangau (also referred to as “Rangau”) Community of Tanzania in the northern foothills of Mt. Kilimanjaro. The community is located approx. 8 kilometers from the Olmoti clinic project, completed by EWB-USA SBV and the Olmoti community in 2015.  Community members from Erangau were peripherally involved in the 2015 project and expressed interest in an extension to their community as early as 2014. Erangau community leaders worked hard to document the demand for water and establish communications with EWB for help to make this project a reality. 

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The Erangau community consists of 1876 people in 705 families from the Maasai culture. The majority of community members live in traditional houses called bomas, where all family members share the same living area. Traditionally, the women bring water each day for their families to use for drinking, cooking, and bathing. This water is carried on the womens' backs or with donkeys. 

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Project Objectives: The Erangau community has the problem of unreliable local access to clean drinking water. Community members are able collect rain water during some seasons; the remainder of the time they must walk up to 10 km round-trip to the nearest source of treated water. 

The project objectives include:

1. Providing a local, reliable source of potable water for the community of Erengau.

2. Installing a new potable water distribution network to the community including a large storage tank, 3 tap stands, pressure reducing tanks, and main transmission lines. The EWB team gathered water demand data to ensure the system is properly sized.  The water source would is the same as the previous Olmolti project, treated water from the Simba River, which has sufficient supply to add Erangau to the system according to the Magadini Makiwaru Water Supply  of the Tanzania Siha District.

3. Building the technical capacity of the community to operate and maintain the system long term.

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