Pumping Water Technologies
This one-week course provides students with a "hands-on" participatory training environment using actual hand pumps, electric pumps and gravity pumps. Equip's campus has 12 different types of pumps for students to experience: including India Mark II, Afridev hand pumps, Ram, Jet and direct actions pumps. During this course, these pumping systems will be examined, disassembled and then reassembled. Students will first learn how these pumps work; later Equip instructors will insert faults into these pumping systems for the student to troubleshoot and repair.
Pumping systems repair is an excellent addition to drilling because the cost to repair existing water wells is usually a fraction of the cost of drlling new water wells.
Course Outputs:
- Understand and operate commonly used hand pumps - India Mark II, Afridev, Bush, Central American Rope pump, Direct actions - Canzee and pitcher suction pump
- Diagnosis and repair problems found in common pumping systems
- Water testing and water treatment
- Community assessment and entry strategies
- Pumping ground water vs. surface water - options and concerns
- Integrated mission and colletive worth of WAter, Sanitation, Hygiene education (WASH)
- Understanding of water development case studies
Missionaries and other church workers who complete this course are better able to meet the need for safe water in the misison field.