Groundwater Development
Code of Practice for Cost-Effective Boreholes
Maps of areas appropriate for manual drilling in Africa: final report on the methodologies used and the results obtained.
- Benin: report, map
- Central African Republic: report, map
- Chad: report, map
- Cote d'Ivoire: report, map
- Liberia: report, map
- Madagascar: report, map
- Mali: report, map
- Mauritania: report, map
- Niger: report, map
- Senegal: report, map
- Sierra Leone: report, map
- Togo: report, map
Technical Note Series on Manual Drilling
- The Case for Manual Drilling in Africa [En] [Fr]
- Professionalising Manual Drilling in Africa [En] [Fr]
- Selection of Well Construction Methods [En] [Fr]
- Manual Drilling Techniques [En] [Fr]
- Mapping the Potential for Manual Drilling [En] [Fr]
Case Studies
- The impact of manual drilling for the construction of sustainable water-points in Chad [En] [Fr]
- Sustainable transfer of manual well drilling to the private sector in Niger [En] [Fr]
Technical Manuals
- Professionalizing the Manual Drilling Sector in Africa [En] [Fr]
- Financing Options for Low-Cost Well Drillers & Communities for Rural Water Supply [En] [Fr]
- Improving Skills of Manual Drilling Enterprises [En] [Fr]
- Understanding Groundwater & Wells in Manual Drilling [En] [Fr]
- Augering [En] [Fr]
- Jetting [En] [Fr]
- Percussion [En] [Fr]
Videos for Manual Drilling Promotion
