Village Level Operation and Maintenance of Handpumps: experiences from Karonga, Malawi

Edited by Dolf Noppen (1996)

This paper documents the experiences from the Karonga Lakeshore Groundwater Project, a small rural water supply project in northern Malawi, and emphasizes that village level operation and maintenance (VLOM) is not a technical but a community concept. The Karonga case attempted to demonstrate how making VLOM a key component of the project could help to solve some of the water problems encountered. The paper focuses on what was learned in order to give a practical guide for VLOM, applicable far beyond the geographical area defined by the project.

Target audience: staff of rural and semi-urban water supply projects

Published in association with Danida.

The paper is available as a download in the IRC WASH Library.

- Series:

Project and Programme Paper no. 3-E. viii, 70 pages. Illustrated.

- Price:

€ 9.00

- Order code:

PR 3-E