Recap of the second half/ Meeting notes

Recap of Wednesday and Thursday (from Meeting notes)

1.  Discussing survey results
   - talked to people with directed question for the past two days in Kwa Njenga
   - Definition: Bathroom/bafu = an enclosed room (usually made from corrugated metal) with a hole to drain the water; typically bring water in a basin
   Questions asked in survey:
   - How much they spend on showers? Avg 5-10 L (2.5 - 5 shillings spent on water). Sometimes it would be more if they were using the paraffin or coal when they wanted heated.
   - How much time do they spend? Depends on the person
   - Water sources? 2 main ways: Connection to main pipeline and water vendors; another option is the boreholes, but way too expensive at 3-4 million KSH; save up water if there is a drought or have to go far to get water
   - Advantages of showers: free up hands, don't need to bend down , feels more luxurious
   - Constraints that we want to have: not increasing the amount of water per shower use
   - showerhead: low flow, high pressure; maybe have it be moveable to help increase
   - Will they use the shower? They seem to be willing to pay more rent, but not so much per use; average shillings that they said that they would be willing to increase would be 200 KSH. They are using the same amount of money for bathing as they would be if they were to pay for shower
   - current showers = no pumping mechanism and no running water; instead they just hand people basins to bathe in the same rooms
   - Recycle water? Most people were willing to reuse water to wash clothes and maybe even bathing if they knew that it was clean (definitely not for drinking or cooking); clean = clear, odorless, no impurities, and see that the treatment is working; very little agriculture because of lack of space
   - Size of plot: depends on household; 10 x 10; one room per household

2. Connections:

• talked to the village chairman of Milamani (one region of Kwa Njenga)
• talked to a few landowners

3. Technical Design

    - plastic and not using concrete outside

    Structure

- unit that can be assemble within their house (maybe?); changing room using plastic
- something to collect water at the bottom to prevent water from escaping and deal with drainage
- 4 plastic poles where there would be a plastic tarp to wrap around the side

   Pumping (refer to the diagram)

   - options: 1. pump before the shower 2. someone else pump during 3. pump   during the shower

   - use the jerry can and pump the water up using air pressure 

4. Goals for upcoming two week:

• build a prototype
• get a sense of what the pressure is and what would be necessary
• later half of next week: bring it out into the field and hear what people think about it so we can make improvements

Friday Notes
We researched on different possible ways of creating the pump that had wanted to prototype and went out to the town to buy some materials. So far we have found a jerry can (that we washed the oil out), a bike hand pump, some tubing, and silicone. Our current plan is to figure out how to drill a hole into the cap without using an electric drill. There will be more updates later today or tomorrow in regards to our prototyping status.