Rural Water Supply Handpumps Project. Handpumps Testing and Development: Proceedings of a Workshop in China

摘要

The United Nations has declared the 1980s the International Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation Decade (IDWSSD) to address the needs of over 2,000 million people in developing countries who lack adequate supplies of safe water and sanitation facilities. The UNDP/World Bank Project for Laboratory and Field Testing and Technological Development of Rural Water Supply Handpumps is one of the activities being carried out as part of the Decade. The objective of the Project is to support the global effort to provide reliable low-cost water supply systems to serve those in need of adequate sources of water in rural and urban fringe areas. Handpumps installed in dug wells or boreholes in areas where groundwater is available provide one of the simplest and least costly methods of supplying these areas with water. Emphasis has been placed on the development of pumps which are suitable for 'Village Level Operation and Maintenance'. (Copyright (c) 1985 The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/The World Bank.)