Handpumps testing and development
proceedings of a workshop in China
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Tschannerl, Gerhard. Bryan, Kedar
Summary
The United Nations has declared the 1980s the International Drinking Water supply and Sanitation Decade to address the needs of over 2,000 million people in developing countries who lack adequate supplies of safe water ansd sanitation facilities. The UNDP/World Bank Project for Laboratory and Field Testing and Technological Development of Rural Water supply Handpumps is one of the activities being carried out as part of the Decade. The objective of theproject to support the global effort to provide reliable low cost water supply systems to serve those in need of adequate sources of water rural and urban fringe areas. Handpumps installed in dug simplest and least costly methods of supplying these areas with water. Emphasis has been placed on the development of pumps which are suitable for "Village Level Operation and Maintenace" (VLOM) as this may be the only sustainable and replicable option in most regions. This report presents the proceedings of the Workshop on the State of the Art and Application of Handpumps and on water Supply and Sanitation", hel in Changsha, Hunan Province, People's REpublic of China, from August 15 to 21, 1984, as part of the project's activities. The workshop was sponsored and condcuted by the Ministry of Machine Building Industry of the chinese Governement, the United Nations Development Programme, and the World Bank. Funding for the workshop and project activities in china was provided in part by the German Minsitry of Economic Cooperation and the German Agency for Technical Cooperation of the Ferderal Republic of Germany. This report contains those papers submitted to the workshop Secretaiate and presented by representatives of developing countries and bilateral and international aid and developemnt agencies participating in the project activities. The major conclusions of the workshop and a short summary of the presentations are given in the Overview. The list of participants and workshops programe are provided in the annexes. The report is intended to present those activities being conducted by select aid and devlopment agencies and developing country governments as part of the Handpumps Project so that other agencies, governments and other interested parties might benefit from tier experiences.