Design a Safe Water Protocol for Northern Nigerian Boarding Schools

Government boarding schools in states like Zamfara, Yobe, and Borno routinely house hundreds of students with a single borehole, broken handwashing stations, and no water treatment process. Waterborne illness is a leading cause of school absenteeism. School administrations often lack the technical guidance or budget to act, but they do have some capacity to change internal practices. Your job is to design a water safety protocol that a school principal could realistically implement with limited funding. The protocol should cover water source assessment, storage hygiene, point-of-use treatment options (such as chlorination or solar disinfection), and staff responsibilities. It should be written for a non-specialist audience and account for the school calendar, including dry season when boreholes underperform. Submit a protocol document of no more than four pages, a one-page summary sheet designed to be printed and posted in a school kitchen or dormitory, and a short note (300 to 400 words) explaining the design decisions you made and the constraints you built around. The best submissions will have looked at at least one real school's context, either through fieldwork, a published WASH assessment, or interviews. Generic advice repackaged as a protocol will not score well. Show your reasoning.