Other Good Websites - MaWaMa

Other Good Websites

Akvopedia is an excellent website providing an editable summary of all good low cost water and sanitation technologies along near comprehensive links to relevant material

http://www.akvo.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

This link offers an excellent reference for all things related to groundwater as well as a very neat summary why manual drilling works well and how it is working around the world

http://www.unicef.org/wash/index_49090.html

The Practica Foundation were the main ones to develop the manual drilling technologies discussed on MaWaMa, they are a large organisation with very useful set of freely available manuals which can be found at

http://www.practica.org/services/publications/manuals/

Bombas de Mecate in Nicaragua were the first to seriously manufacture and develop the pump and they maintain very close links to the Practica Foundation

http://www.ropepumps.org/

This book by Koegel and made available by the UN FAO offers an excellent, if not a little outdated, summary of wells, boreholes and drilling

http://www.fao.org/docrep/X5567E/x5567e00.HTM

The following is an invaluable website for all technologies relevant to low income countries, it has a library of instructive and analytical texts as well as even more invaluable forums full of years of experience.

http://watersanitationhygiene.org/

This comprehensive guide to mechanised drilling is the ultimate driller's textbook

Misstear Bruce, Banks David, Clark lewis. Water, Wells and Boreholes. Chichester: Wiley, 2007. Available from:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Water-Wells-and-Boreholes-ebook/dp/B002C1ATRO/ref=kinw_dp_ke?ie=UTF8&m=A3TVV12T0I6NSM

Although written for disaster situations the following book is one of the best reference books for an engineer working in poorer countries

Davis Jan, Lambert Robert. Engineering in Emergencies. 2nd ed. London: ITDG, 2002. Available from: http://www.redr.org.uk/en/what_you_can_do/Shop_on-line/index.cfm/engineering-in-emergencies--a-practical-guide-for-relief-workers & http://www.amazon.co.uk/Engineering-Emergencies-Practical-Relief-Workers/dp/1853395218

Other good websites relevant to technology and water and sanitation in low income countries include

The following provides an excellent overview of the different mechanised drilling technologies available

ICRC. Technical Review Borehole Drilling & Rehabilitation under Field Conditions. Geneva, 2010. Available at http://www.icrc.org/eng/resources/documents/publication/p0998.htm

Geological maps for the whole of Africa can be found at

http://eusoils.jrc.ec.europa.eu/esdb_archive/EuDASM/africa/index.htm

MSABI who have 6 manual drilling teams in Ifakara, Tanzania are transferring management of the drilling teams over to a local enterprise whilst continuing research on drilling, pump, sanitation and other ways of reducing disease caused by bad water.

http://www.msabi.org

MSABI and various other organisations were trained in the technologies they by the Southern Highlands Participatory Organisation (SHIPO) a training and implementation centre based in Njombe on the other side of the Udzungwa mountains to Ifakara where MSABI is based. SHIPO have links to the Practica foundation (see above)

http://www.shipo-tz.org/

Pompenisleven manually drill boreholes and manufacture and install rope pumps in Ghana

http://www.pompenisleven.nl/index.php?menu=contact

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