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Drinking water supply infrastructure, whether implemented at the community or household scale, requires a commitment to building physical infrastructure, community capacity, and expectations of success. The construction phase is approximately 4 months and is only a small portion of the project calendar. Implementation Partners take the lead role in choosing communities based on water quality deficiencies and, equally important, on community assets such as organization, ability to maintain qualified operators, and financing chlorine and aluminum sulfatecoagulants.
New Implementation partners should choose initial communities located close to the Implementation partner's offices to simplify logistics and reduce mobilization costs. Cost savings can also be realized if the partner builds clusters of water treatment plants in neighboring communities to enable a single structural engineer to supervise multiple construction sites, and to facilitate training of and knowledge sharing between plant operators.
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