By Rustom SeegopaulThe house built for the system’s operator (complete with solar panels on the roof). Wrapping up a project approximately four years in the making, the Rotary Club of Georgetown and the New Highway Producers Co-op Society (NHPCS) on Sunday commissioned a solar-powered water pump at a simple ceremony at the Elevated Storage Tank Site on the Kuru Kuru College Road in Linden.Dubbed the Kuru Kuru Water Project, the venture was designed to provide an alternative source of water in the dry season, and avoid the transportation of water for approximately one kilometre or more from the creek.This was accomplished through the installation of a water pump powered by solar panels,Cheap Jerseys Free Shipping, along with elevated storage tanks capable of storing 9000 litres of water. Added to this was the laying of pipes and the installation of water faucets at 14 different locations throughout the community. These locations are each equipped with a pair of water faucets designed to shut off automatically, so as to prevent wastage of water.Approximately 70 households,Jerseys From China, comprising over 200 people, will benefit from the completion of the project. While rain water is gathered during the wet season, during the dry season, residents were forced to walk to access water.According to the Rotary Club of Georgetown, the total cost of the collaborated effort was G$3.8 million. The Rotary Club of Georgetown received contributions from various Rotary Clubs around the world, and The Rotary Foundation (TRF) made a grant, matching the sum collected by the different Clubs, in the sum of US$24,600. The Kuru Kuru community and the NHPCS raised $2 million as their contribution to the project.?The elevated reservoir of the recently commissioned Kuru Kuru solar-powered water system.The simple ceremony was attended by various Rotarians and members of the NPHCS, along with members of the Kuru Kuru community. The ceremony also was graced with the presence of the Canadian High Commissioner and Rotarian, Charles Court,Jerseys NFL China, and Minister of Amerindian Affairs, Pauline Sukhai, who was involved with the project from its inception, before she became a minister.Long serving Rotarian Kit Nascimento acted as the Chairman for the programme, and highlighted that this was one of the many projects which the TRF and the Rotary Club of Georgetown were a part of.“This is real development. This is what development really is,” explained Nascimento,Cheap Jerseys From China, as he noted that people would really benefit from the completion of the Kuru Kuru Water Project. He also reminded the residents of the area that the pump, storage tanks and the faucets were now theirs to maintain and secure.The President of the Rotary Club of Georgetown, Aubrey Roberts, provided those gathered with an overview of the project,Wholesale China Jerseys, highlighting some of the challenges which the project had faced over its four-year course.“TRF recognized that there is a global demand for water in unserved communities around the world,” Roberts explained. He went on to say that the TRF had challenged Clubs all over the world to develop and implement water supply projects for deserving communities.Roberts said that, in September 2004, the project was conceptualized in collaboration with the NPHCS. The grants had been secured by February 2007, when the first real challenge the project faced presented itself. The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) implemented value added tax (VAT) in January 2007. This caused the cost for the project to be raised by an approximate 16 per cent.At this point in time, Roberts said, the redesign of the structures and procurement of the materials began. Phase I of the project saw the construction of the storage and distribution systems in August 2007. Here, another challenge presented itself – the existing well was too shallow to support the expanded system that was under construction.The President of the Rotary Club of Georgetown explained that the NHPCS,Wholesale Jerseys, at this point in time, decided to finance the drilling of a new well. At the same time, the NHPCS built a house for the water system operator. This house also houses the controls for the pump. The solar panels were also mounted on the roof of this house.By July 2008, the distribution system was commissioned and the stand pipe faucets were installed.Roberts highlighted the fact that the water system has a very low operating cost, as the system is operated by solar power. The system has no batteries, and hence is only operated during the day.The 9000-litre storage reservoir, according to Roberts, will p