| dc.description.abstract | This industrial training report comprises of the activities I participated in, I had hands on, carried
out and observed while I was on my industrial training from January to June 2020.
I took to myself all the work events, procedures of the work done and observed all were recorded
in the daily note book and used to compile this report
The construction of Kyambura Hydro Power plant in Kirugu Sub-county, Rubirizi District has
had a wide range of effects on the communities within the project belt and the neighboring areas.
One of such effects is accessibility to water, especially for domestic use. Whereas the majority of
the community members used to fetch water form River Kyambura, this was affected by the
alterations made on the river by the power project.
Currently people from Kaberengye A, Kaberengye B and Omukabare A communities use unsafe
water from River Kyambura carried in trucks to their villages and other members use water from
other stagnant and unclean sources, which expose them to diseases like bilharzia, typhoid,
cholera, diarrhoea and other water-borne diseases. Other members walk long distances of up to 5
kilometres to fetch water from Lake Karia while some go to the National Water and Sewerage
Corporation Public Water Taps. Some people have lost lives through drowning while fetching
water from River Kyambura, especially women and children.
It was therefore considered important to construct a safe water supply system to serve villages of
Kaberengye A, Kaberengye B and Omukabare A, which are affected by the on-going
construction of the Kyambura Hydro Power plant. A number of alternative systems were
evaluated with an interest of identifying the most feasible system that can serve the above
mentioned communities with safe water. A Solar-powered Deep Production Borehole System
was selected as the most viable especially in terms of operation and maintenance for
sustainability The objective of the field industrial training were To provide an opportunity to the
student to apply principles and techniques theoretically learnt into real life problem solving
situations and to get hands on experiences in real life situations that they are expected to work in
when they graduate or after accomplishing the degree.
The experience were gained importantly in all areas which are explained in chapter two as case
studies of Construction of Pumped Water System and the focus for reporting and training was
based on the course outline for field report in the course content in relation to experience gained
in the field of study. Project Design, contract procedure, Construction procedures, innovations
and information technology in rehabilitation of Water Tanks was all trained in addition to project
management, Experience was gained in physical planning of Rubirizi District and this was well
detailed in case study and experience gained in chapter three. | en_US |
