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Assessment of MarosheeIsland, Shaviyani
atoll, 3 January 2005
Meeting / discussion with
Mr Ali Sayef, Community health
worker
Mr Ahmed Saleem, Family health
worker
Site visits to
Island health centre
Sample of houses
Situation
829 inhabitants, of whom 522 resident (others work in
other islands & Male). No evacuees from other islands. Approx 130
households.
Entire island inundated to depth of about 50 – 60 cm.
Many yard walls collapsed + minor damage to house interiors / furniture &
contents.
Debris on roads largely removed.
Health centre: loss of
medical, pharmaceutical, laboratory equipment and stores.
Assessment
1. Accommodation
2. Water supply
Drinking water:
Main source is
rainwater:
 8 x 10,000 l public ferro-cement
tanks. About ½ full, undamaged.
4 x 5,000 l public HDPE tanks – knocked over
and emptied, undamaged and now replaced upright.
176 individual household tanks, most 2, 500 litres, about ½ full.
Estimated sufficient water held for 20 days consumption.
Adequate storage available.
Bottled water sent as assistance and distributed among
households.
Open dug wells:180 household
wells – contaminated with saltwater in all but 6. Most have been emptied and
flushed, but still brackish.. Health centre staff have been adding
chlorine to wells daily (not to rainwater collectors). Well water used for
bathing, washing, toilets etc.
Adequate chlorine available (1 drum).
3. Sanitation
Individual septic tanks with soakaways.
About 10 reported to be blocked. No reports of leakage or damage to septic
tanks. .
4. Solid waste
management
No debris seen. Leaves dying on trees.
Some small fish in debris, but not large numbers.
Removed when debris removed.
5. Mosquito
control: No
mosquito problems as yet.
Recommendation
1. Drinking water
Will need further supplies of drinking water to
supplement rainwater. Adequate storage available.
Recommend chlorination of rainwater collectors, and
cease chlorination of open dug wells.
Lower priority for desalination plant than Ungoofaru.
Continue emptying and flushing of open dug wells to
reduce salinity.
Inadequate collection space for 4 x 5,000 l HDPE public
rainwater tanks (around 16 sq m): suggest connect to adjacent building.
2. Replacement of
fruit bearing trees
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