Long-Term Water Strategies
Groundwater is generally a readily avaialble source of clean, safe water throughout sub-Saharan Africa. Tapping into and developing existing groundwater resources through cost-effective drillling and well construction is the most universally reliable method of meeting the clean, safe drinking water needs of rural communities in developing countries.
In sub-Saharan Africa these water resources are extensive and untapped. Groundwater resouces utilizing hand pumps are considered to be best low-cost technical options for rural community water supplies due to the generally unpolluted mature of the source. No filter on earth can equal the purifying, natural cleansing effect of just a few feet of Mother Earth.
The benefits of new water wells are staggering, impacting children, women, health, education and economic development. Through cost-effective drilling and constructing new water wells, clean, safe life-sustaining water can be provided at a cost of only $25 per person in rural areas of sub-Saharan Africa. Once these new water wells are constructed they can provide water for 10-20 years and longer.
- One new water well can provide clean, safe water for 500 people per day
- Ten new water wells can provide clean, safe water for 5,000 people per day.
Dollar for dollar no other technology in the water sector can provide the benefits of cost-effective drilling and new water well construction in rural areas of developing countries!
This strategy is geared to building a model that is Wholistic, Appropriate and Sustainable!
Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give him will Never Thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.