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UGANDA / REFUGEES WATER SUPPLY
STORY: UGANDA / REFUGEES WATER SUPPLY
TRT: 3:46
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH /LUGBARA
DATELINE: MAY 2019, YUMBE, UGANDA /FILE
FILE – MAY 2017, ARUA, UGANDA
1. Wide shot, water trucks on road
2. Med shot, water trucks on rough road
3. Pan right, water truck arriving at water point
MAY 2019, YUMBE, UGANDA
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Asha Rose Sillah, South Sudanese refugee:
“When we were brought it was the rainy season. Trucks got stuck on the roadside and it is very hard for us to get water.”
FILE – MAY 2017, ARUA, UGANDA
5. Wide shot, women waiting for water at water point
6. Wide shot, water cans in queue
MAY 2019, YUMBE, UGANDA
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Asha Rose Sillah, South Sudanese refugee:
“We as women we are all scrambling to the same vehicle which brings the water and the population which we are in, it is really a very big population.”
8. Aerial shot, view of Bidibidi settlement
9. Wide shot, people at dry riverbed
10. Med shot, woman fetching water from a hole
11. Close up, water
12. SOUNDBITE (Lugbara) Zamurat Angulco, Ugandan farmer:
“Life was very difficult, we had to go a very long distance to look for water and we would dig the dry sand. We would leave at 8 in the morning and come back at 2 in the afternoon.”
13. Pan left, solar panels
14. Med shot, worker at a water pump
15. Close up, water
16. Various shots, engineers working at the water station
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Richard Ochaya, Senior WASH Officer, UNHCR:
“In the whole process, the capacity building part has been very vivid whereby the partners have been fully trained, the host community has been fully trained to be able to take care of such facilities in terms of our transition, whereby in future the refugee operations are to move away, the hosting community should be able to take care of such facilities and see them for more generations to come.”
18. Various shots, Richard and other engineers inspecting facility
19. Various shots, Asha with her daughters at water point
20. SOUNDBITE (English) Asha Rose Sillah, South Sudanese refugee:
“Right now, every village has at least 3 to 4 taps, which if you see there are two people, you will rush where there is only one person. Now you go, it saves your time.”
21. Various shots, Asha and daughters work in field
22. SOUNDBITE (English) Asha Rose Sillah, South Sudanese refugee:
“Now this onion that you see, it looks few but this one I will have 3 – 4 basins of onion which if I estimate I will have 150 or 200,000 Ugandan shillings and it is not only for sale, I will sell part of it and I will motivate my food. At least you will have food fried with onions so that I can have that smell on it.”
23. Wide shot, Asha works on onions patch
24. Close up, onions
25. Med shot, Asha in onion patch
Asha Rose Sillah fled South Sudan to Uganda in 2016 at the height of an emergency that saw thousands cross the border every day. Water was scarce and dirty then – hardly adequate for her family of five children.
SOUNDBITE (English) Asha Rose Sillah, South Sudanese refugee:
“When we were brought it was the rainy season. Trucks got stuck on the roadside and it is very hard for us to get water.”
Trucks delivered water from a source 100 kilometers away on poor roads and refugees had to queue for hours to fill as many jerry cans as they could carry.
SOUNDBITE (English) Asha Rose Sillah, South Sudanese refugee:
“We as women we are all scrambling to the same vehicle which brings the water and the population which we are in, it is really a very big population.”
The minimum water requirement for a person is 20 liters a day. Three years ago, the supply in Bidi Bidi was at an average 2.3 liters per day – not only for the refugees, but for the Ugandan host community as well.
SOUNDBITE (Lugbara) Zamurat Angulco, Ugandan farmer:
“Life was very difficult, we had to go a very long distance to look for water and we would dig the dry sand. We would leave at 8 in the morning and come back at 2 in the afternoon.”
Today, solar powered borehole set up by UNHCR with investment from partners and the private sector pumps ground water to water points that supply Bidi Bidi’s 200,000 refugees and their host communities The capacity of the pump is 85,000 liters of water per hour, but only 45,000 litres is extracted to avoid depleting the aquifers – to manage the resource and take care of the environment. The plan is to one day hand over the facility to the Ugandan government to boost water supply in the district.
SOUNDBITE (English) Richard Ochaya, Senior WASH Officer, UNHCR:
“In the whole process, the capacity building part has been very vivid whereby the partners have been fully trained, the host community has been fully trained to be able to take care of such facilities in terms of our transition, whereby in future the refugee operations are to move away, the hosting community should be able to take care of such facilities and see them for more generations to come.”
It is an example of how smart investment can strengthen the response to displacement and ease the burden on host communities through shared resources.
SOUNDBITE (English) Asha Rose Sillah, South Sudanese refugee:
“Right now, every village has at least 3 to 4 taps, which if you see there are two people, you will rush where there is only one person. Now you go, it saves your time.”
For Asha, more water means she can now grow more food to feed her family but also to sell it at the local market.
SOUNDBITE (English) Asha Rose Sillah, South Sudanese refugee:
“Now this onion that you see, it looks few but this one I will have 3 – 4 basins of onion which if I estimate I will have 150 or 200,000 Ugandan shillings and it is not only for sale, I will sell part of it and I will motivate my food. At least you will have food fried with onions so that I can have that smell on it.”
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