Drilling and Constructing New Water Wells
Groundwater is generally a readily available source of clean, safe drinking water throughout sub-Saharan Africa. Tapping into and developing existing groundwater resources through the promotion of new, appropriate drilling technologies and utilizing cost-effective water well construction technologies is the most universally reliable method of meeting the clean 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
Holistic, 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.
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Your gift today will help us drill and construct new water wells in rural Kenya and provide the gift of clean, safe drinking water to people in need.
Your gift today will help us purchase our own drilling equipment
cutting the cost of drilling and constructing new water wells
in rural Kenya in half.