WATER |
Hand
Pumps for Drinking Water Wells |
The importance of safe and adequate drinking water supplies for rural areas
can never be over emphasized. The State Government is alive to the need
for potable water in villages and is implementing a programme for digging
borewells and fitting them with handpumps. UNICEF is also extending help
to the State Government's programme. However, much of the anticipated benefits
have been mitigated by a large number of breakdowns. In Phase-I of the project,
failure modes of existing designs of handpumps were analyzed and an improved
design was evolved. Using an accelerated testing rig, this new handpump
was tested and the design passed on to the Public Health Engineering Department,
Government of Karnataka. It was also felt that a strict quality control and an effective maintenance system was the only solution for increasing mean time between failures. It was felt that if a pump that would u se standard parts could be designed, the variation in the quality would be mininum. |
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