Water is life! This truth becomes very clear while wandering through the country site. In hardly any household is running water, which results in bad hygiene, high infant mortality and much more.

Therefore we at Vision Hope are convinced that water projects have a key function in the development of rural Yemen. Our projects range from cistern projects to water filter on the household level. Water harvesting from fog was tested in a pilot.

Cistern Works

In many districts of the Hajja Governorate there is no running water, electricity, telephone service, or vehicular access. The local NGOs Jamaiyya Mustaqbal and Nahda repaired in partnership with VHI many rainwater collection cisterns in the last years.
Water from the cisterns is extremely important.

New cistern wall	Cistern ready!
Quite deep	Still a lot of work

Cistern wall plastered	Excavation of a cistern	Together it is easier

Water for human consumption from fog

In January 2003  we started in cooperation with the organization International Community Services (www.ics-yemen.org) and with fog expert Pablo Osses from the NGO Fogquest (www.fogquest.org)  a pilot project with the goal of producing drinking water from fog.

In 2004 as a result of severe storms many Large Fogcollectors were destroyed, therefore VHI invested in 2005 in the further development of these systems.

Fog collectors	Fog collectors
Water in plastic channel	Drops

Water purification

Unfortunately the water quality from cisterns is very lousy, therefore our member Stephan Krämer started in cooperation with the GTZ (www.gtz.de) a project in which he investigated simple technologies on how to purify water at the household level. The results of this study are used now in accompanying measured to our cistern projects.

Sandfilter in Bani Hajjar	Women after training

Training material	Training material II	Hussayn our filter expert