Making Your Water Supply Work: operation and maintenance of small water supplies

Jan Davis and François Brikké (1995)

Provides recent information on trends and developments in the operation and maintenance of water supply systems of small communities, based on a review of available literature, comments from the Operation and Maintenance Working Group of the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council, and the field experience of the authors and IRC staff members. The technologies described are those most commonly encountered in small communities: protected dug well, borehole with handpump, gravity piped supply to standposts, rooftop harvesting and motorized pump.

Target audience: project staff and sector professionals

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- Series:

Occasional Paper no. 29. vii, 108 pages. 48 references. Illustrated.

- Price:

€ 12.00

- Order code:

OP 29-E