Provide Clean Water
Water is the quiet foundation.
Drinking, cooking, washing, sanitation — every part of daily care at our partner's home depends on it.
Water is the area where fundraising language most often outruns the facts. A well is easy to promise and hard to cost. So this page separates two things clearly: what Jordan River Charity has actually verified about water at our partner's site, and what published Ugandan sources say in general. We will not blur the two.
Why this matters
Not a symbol — a daily requirement.
- Unsafe or unreliable water is one of the fastest ways a home full of children gets sick.
- Water collection takes time; when it falls to children, it competes with school and rest.
- Hygiene depends on volume, not just purity — a home needs enough water, consistently.
- Recurring water costs quietly compete with food and school fees in a small budget.
What this support provides
What the water is used for.
- Drinking water for children and caregivers every day
- Cooking — staples like posho and beans need substantial water to prepare
- Washing clothes, bedding and dishes
- Sanitation and hygiene, including handwashing and bathing
Current situation
What we know about water at the partner site.
- How water is currently obtained
- Not yet verified by JRC
- Measured household usage
- Not yet measured
- Water bills or receipts on file
- None yet
- Water-quality testing
- Not yet documented
We would rather leave these fields blank than fill them with assumptions. Each will be updated with a date and a source as our partner shares documentation and as we are able to confirm it.
Costs
What does water actually cost?
Our verified costs
Jordan River Charity / Anikana Foundation figures taken only from receipts, invoices, bills, written quotations or partner records we hold.
Local cost verification in progress.
No water bill, receipt or written quotation from our partner's site has been verified yet. When one is, this section will show the actual amount, the period it covers, and the document type it came from.
External context — not our figures
Published third-party information, kept separate from our own spending and never added into our totals.
Uganda's National Water and Sewerage Corporation applies annual indexation to its water tariffs, so any utility price must be cited with the tariff year it comes from.
Source: National Water and Sewerage Corporation (Uganda) — https://www.nwsc.co.ug/ · Tariff indexation policy, year to be cited with any figure used · Accessed 2026-08-14 · Uganda (national)
Context only. This is not a Jordan River Charity bill and no JRC water tariff has been verified yet.
A Ugandan borehole drilling provider has published an illustrative drilling range of roughly US$4,800–$7,000, excluding hydrogeological surveying, pump testing, pumping equipment and water-delivery infrastructure.
Source: Ugandan borehole drilling provider (published price guidance) · Provider-published guidance; date to be recorded when re-verified · Accessed 2026-08-14 · Uganda
Illustrative industry range only. This is NOT a Jordan River Charity quotation for the Anikana site and must never be used as a fundraising target.
Infrastructure
What would a well or borehole cost?
We are not going to tell you that a fixed amount “builds a well.” A borehole is a construction project whose cost depends on the ground beneath a specific site. Until a Ugandan contractor gives us a written, site-specific quotation, any number would be fiction. These are the factors that determine the real figure:
- Hydrogeological survey to locate viable groundwater
- Drilling depth required at the site
- Local geology, including rock encountered while drilling
- Whether the borehole yields a successful, sustainable water supply
- Casing and screening materials
- Pump type and specification
- Hand pump versus solar or electric pumping
- Water storage tanks and platform
- Piping and distribution to the points of use
- Water-quality testing and certification
- Transport of rig, materials and crew to the site
- Installation and civil works
- Ongoing maintenance, spares and servicing
Site-specific borehole quote
Not yet obtained
No legitimate written quotation from a Ugandan contractor has been obtained or approved for publication. Once one is, this area will display the actual projected project cost and its scope, and we will be able to compare current annual water expense against the projected system cost and expected maintenance. We will not calculate a payback period until all three of those numbers are verified.
Current annual water expense
Not yet verified
Projected borehole / water system
Awaiting quote
Expected maintenance
Not yet quoted
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