Namibia is currently facing a water scarcity crisis, due to physical and social factors. For people living in informal settlements, rainwater harvesting is one way to ameliorate this situation. This project's goal was to use a - participatory approach to develop a method for rainwater harvesting within the informal settlements of Windhoek. In addition to implementing a pilot system in the community of Hakahana, we set up a sustainable supply chain to allow residents to construct similar systems on their own.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Baker, Seth W.
• Opperman, Gregory Lee
• Summers, Erica A.

Subject

• Water
• Health
• Sustainability
• Environment
• Well-Being

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-051207-152911

Keyword

• Sustainable development--Environmental aspects
• Sustainability
• Water-supply--Environmental aspects

Advisor

• Looft, Fred J.
• Krueger, Robert

Year

• 2007

Center

• Windhoek, Namibia Project Center - IQP

Sponsor

• Polytechnic of Namibia

Date created

• 2007-05-12

Location

• Windhoek

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright