Bamboo-Reinforced Concrete Rainwater Collection Tanks (A Project of Community-Based Appropriate Technology and Development Services in Thailand)

摘要

The Community-Based Appropriate Technology and Development Services (CBATDS) program has registered significant successes in the introduction and wider dissemination of technologies to provide potable water to villages in semi-arid drought-prone Northeastern Thailand. CBATDS, an auxillary of the Population and Community Development Association (PDA), has mobilized technical, logistical and financial assistance for the construction of over 1,000 bamboo reinforced concrete rainwater collection and storage tanks at the time of the field survey (1982). The tank construction program began in 1979 with a village needs analysis conducted by CBATDS staff. The following year a pilot project proved that numerous villagers in three target districts were willing to participate in the construction and self-financing of household rainwater storage systems. (Copyright (c) 1982, A. T. International.)