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Appropriate technologies

Technology notes: Water Aid (pdf 1.3mb)

These technology notes provide an outline of the technologies used by Water Aid on long-term development projects in Africa and Asia.

The notes seek to show alternative methods to determine which methods may be appropriate in different circumstances and in a particular location.

These notes provide information on the following:
- Hygiene education
- Water resource development
- Gravity schemes
- Hand-dug wells
- Tubewells and boreholes
- Handpumps
- Spring protection
- Rainwater harvesting
- Sub-surface dams
- Sanitation
- Disinfection
- Treatment of water

 

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