Rural Water Supply Handpumps Project: Laboratory Testing, Fields Trials and Technological Development; UNDP GLO/79/010, INT/81/026

摘要

More than seventy five percent of over two billion people in the developing countries do not have access to adequate water supply and sanitation facilities. The more than 1500 million people who lack these basic services include 1200 million in the rural areas. The importance of providing safe water to these people has been repeatedly stressed by national governments and international agencies. The aim of the test is to examine a wide range of handpumps to assist in the selection of pumps for further field trials and at the same time to provide information to all interested manufacturers to assist them in the production of more efficient and more reliable pumps. Tests are conducted on two randomly selected samples of pumps, to provide information on basic features rather than on the quality of total production.