Field industrial training in construction of a Solar Powered Deep Production Borehole System for safe water supply in Kikumbo Parish Kirugu Sub county

Abstract

This industrial training report comprises of the activities I participated in, I had hands on, carried out and observed while I was on my industrial training from January to June 2020. I took to myself all the work events, procedures of the work done and observed all were recorded in the daily note book and used to compile this report The construction of Kyambura Hydro Power plant in Kirugu Sub-county, Rubirizi District has had a wide range of effects on the communities within the project belt and the neighboring areas. One of such effects is accessibility to water, especially for domestic use. Whereas the majority of the community members used to fetch water form River Kyambura, this was affected by the alterations made on the river by the power project. Currently people from Kaberengye A, Kaberengye B and Omukabare A communities use unsafe water from River Kyambura carried in trucks to their villages and other members use water from other stagnant and unclean sources, which expose them to diseases like bilharzia, typhoid, cholera, diarrhoea and other water-borne diseases. Other members walk long distances of up to 5 kilometres to fetch water from Lake Karia while some go to the National Water and Sewerage Corporation Public Water Taps. Some people have lost lives through drowning while fetching water from River Kyambura, especially women and children. It was therefore considered important to construct a safe water supply system to serve villages of Kaberengye A, Kaberengye B and Omukabare A, which are affected by the on-going construction of the Kyambura Hydro Power plant. A number of alternative systems were evaluated with an interest of identifying the most feasible system that can serve the above mentioned communities with safe water. A Solar-powered Deep Production Borehole System was selected as the most viable especially in terms of operation and maintenance for sustainability The objective of the field industrial training were To provide an opportunity to the student to apply principles and techniques theoretically learnt into real life problem solving situations and to get hands on experiences in real life situations that they are expected to work in when they graduate or after accomplishing the degree. The experience were gained importantly in all areas which are explained in chapter two as case studies of Construction of Pumped Water System and the focus for reporting and training was based on the course outline for field report in the course content in relation to experience gained in the field of study. Project Design, contract procedure, Construction procedures, innovations and information technology in rehabilitation of Water Tanks was all trained in addition to project management, Experience was gained in physical planning of Rubirizi District and this was well detailed in case study and experience gained in chapter three.