Illustrations of self - help wells
Small diameter (10 cm) village self-help well equipped with hand pump
Small diameter well (10 cm) equipped with slender bucket as water supply for 70 people at an agricultural school. Note casing ends approximately one metre above the ground surface to minimize contamination
Simple drilling apparatus using motorcycle wheels and 4 inch pipes
Small diameter (10 cm) village self-help well equipped with slender well bucket
Large diameter self-help well equipped with animal-drawn skin bucket and small reservoir for irrigating vegetable crops
Large diameter village self-help well. (Note rim around platform to divert spilled water to animal watering trough.)
Large diameter well equipped with stone channel to irrigation system into which skin buckets are emptied
Traditional animal-drawn, skin bucket on large diameter well used in irrigating orchard
Students learning to repair village well pump
Debris from vertical shafts of a Ghanat in alluvium