| Appropriate Technology for
Tanker Villages
The type of technology to be implemented for tanker
villages may not be standard. In the
past, the water problem has been attempted to be solved
by drilling boreholes,
constructing hand-dug wells or bandaras, according to the
geomorphologic conditions of
the village and surrounding areas.
If we exclude the construction of water supply systems,
which are costly and difficult to
maintain (the author has observed many costly water
supply systems which were
abandoned for lack of maintenance), the possible
appropriate technologies, in addition to
are the drilling or digging of wells in nearby favourable
areas, are the groundwater
recharge technologies, the development of artificial
aquifers, and the rain harvesting
technologies, briefly described ahead.
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