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This short note gives some key elements on the following questions: What is the cost of maintaining a pump in rural areas? How much does it represent per family user? Is it affordable? How can these contributions be organised and managed at village level?...

This note put forward the concept of maintenance and the distinction that can be done between preventive or corrective maintenance and rehabilitation. It highlights notions of regular care and diagnosis for water systems in rural areas (for gravity schemes,...

There are many essential reasons why women should be more involved in a community water resources project. In order to have more women participation, we need to better understand the role women play and how access to water can improve not only their own...

This practical guide has been developed for Field Facilitators working with villages' members for the organisation of the management and maintenance of their water system. This guideline provides some illustrated resources to help them preparing and conveying...

Water treatment at the household level ensures that the family is in charge of the safety of their own drinking water. In communities where there is no access to an improved water point or hand pump facility, household water treatment (HHWT) provides...

Why hand-dug wells should only be dug in a specific period of the year, corresponding to low aquifer level? From a technical point of view, hand-dug well drying is often due to the fact that the pumping system does not draw deeply enough or that the well...

The maintenance program conducted in Bombali district intends to support the communities doing a first reparation of their pump, in order to restore their system to normal standards, and to then enter in a dynamic of preventive maintenance. For that,...

The following documents have been created to help technical persons for operating the installation and the maintenance of the pumps: India Marks 2, Kardia Rope pumps (that were used in small villages on shallow wells only). There is also a guide here...