Hand Pump Maintenance: in the Context of Community Well Projects
Language: English
Published by Intermediate Technology Publications, 1985
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- Title
- Hand Pump Maintenance: in the Context of Community Well Projects
- Publisher
- Intermediate Technology Publications
- Publication year
- 1985
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0903031701
- ISBN 13
- 9780903031707
A guide to the technical and social problems involved in community well projects, with an extension and evaluation of the different types of hand pumps available.
Many governments, with the assistance of official agencies and voluntary
organisations, have tackled the water supply problems of rural communities
by drilling tubewells and boreholes. Unfortunately, a vast number
of the tubewells are useless in practice because thousands of the hand
pumps have broken down. Why should this be so? This manual suggests
that one of the major reasons for the breakdown is that the community
or the village have not been adequately involved in the project in the
first place, and have not accepted the social responsibility for the task
of maintaining the pump.
Of course many of the pumps themselves suffer from design faults
and construction defects, but the hardware can fairly readily be repaired
and design faults can be corrected. However, "an effective pump system is not simply a technological object but a conglomerate of technology,
institutions and people" (WHO).
This volume puts forward various strategies which, if followed, might
overcome the social problems. It also examines and evaluates different
types of pump, and puts forward a schedule of recommended work that
should be undertaken by the community or the villager responsible for
the pump.
The book is a valuable contribution which should be read by all
involved in development work, and particularly by those concerned
with rural water supplies.
Arnold Pacey is a freelance writer on technology. He was a lecturer
in the history of technology at the University of Manchester Institute
of Science and Technology from 1964 to 1972. From 1973 to 1976
he was with Oxfam GB. He was connected with Intermediate Technology
Development Group since 1969, and, as a member of their Water
Panel, edited Water for the Thousand Millions, the panel's paper
for the 1977 United Nations Water Conference. He is also the author of
The Maze of Ingenuity: Ideas and Idealism in the Technology of
Development (Allen Lane).
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