KEEPING THE POOR, POOR ???

SETTING UP THE POOR TO FAIL

From the early 1970's to this very year, NGO's and governmental organizations such as USAID have set up small hand drilling water point businesses to fail. When one reads the accounts of the millions of water point failures that are the subject of so many journal and popular news articles, no one ever admits that they know these companies will fail. However, they encourage these poor companies to continue using old technology. This is a shame. One of the leading cause of failure is well known in the water point drilling business----small trash pumps burn out seals frequently, when used as jetting pumps. The sand and debris just eats away at the seals. 

One cannot base a business founded upon tools that do not work properly. When jetting, washing, direct circulation and other tools are all based upon an unstable technology, then one must assume that the business itself will be unstable. Rather than use newly available tools that do not fail, these NGO's and government organizations, continue to use equipment destined to fail. The NGO's and governmental organizations have known for nearly 50 years that these types of pumps are not dependable. . 

Hand drilled boreholes are completed by the poor, for the poor, so no one is induced to change. 

See https://www.onemillionwells.org for a system that does not use water pump shaft seals that can be ruined by sand or debris.