Field Updates
This is where Breakthrough Water shares dated project reports, community moments, and verified details from the field. Each update tells you what was completed, where it happened, and what our records confirm.
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On February 27, 2026, ten Breakthrough Water wells opened across the Araku region of Andhra Pradesh. According to the project records, they serve 444 families, 2,488 people in all.
The villages are Bondam, Byravguda, Chelimarivalasa, Gorapur, Kikkitiguda, Mangalamamidi, Mugiriguda, Ninnimamidivalasa, Padalaput, and Poddaguda.
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Kaguvalasa is a farming village in the Araku Valley, about 27 kilometers from Araku town. Around 37 families, about 140 people, live here and grow rice, mostly for their own needs.
Until now, drinking water came from springs in the surrounding hills, and at times from stored tank water. In the summer months, the springs run low, and families walked long distances to carry water home.
In mid-November 2025, the village gathered to open its own Breakthrough Water well, the 209th since 2012.
The community gathers as the new well in Kaguvalasa is opened.
A new Breakthrough Water well opened in Marriveedu on March 7, 2024. The project record lists 100 families and 300 people. In the photograph, community members gather around the newly opened hand pump.
A community celebrates the public opening of a Breakthrough Water well on March 7, 2024.
From the archive
The first Breakthrough Water well was completed in Makkuva on June 10, 2012. The team had drilled 160 feet into dry rock and was close to giving up. After prayer, drilling continued for another 25 feet—and water came gushing out.
That breakthrough gave the program its name and began the work that has now reached 220 completed wells.
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