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Is there a voting system for best message?
I think David Ball's message just got my vote! What a belter!

Dear Alex,

You may want to look here at the CanZee pump and talk to Richard Cansdale of SWS Filtration up in Morpeth about the CanZee pump and about well-jetting which is a cheap and relatively easy way of effectively making a shallow bore hole. https://www.rural-water-supply.net/en/resources/details/173 and https://www.swsfilt.co.uk/nzp/index.htm

Another option may be to look at using household slow sand filters as promoted by https://www.biosandfilter.org/biosandfilter/index.php/ and as practiced by Bushproof: https://www.bushproof.com/products/trainings/household-biosand-filtration/

Eric Fewster of Bushproof lives in Greater Manchester so is easy to get hold of and is well known at RedR UK: https://www.bushproof.com/about/shareholders/

Judging from what several respondents have said above, it sounds as if boreholes are fraught with problems in Cameroon. So depending on the strata, level of the water table and water quality it may be better to preferably treat whatever water is available to render it potable or to establish shallow boreholes and use a CanZee pump provided the strata and water at the levels suiting the pumps and well jetting is potable or good enough to simply run through a sand filter.

All the best with your projects. Power to your elbows and brains in equal measure!

Steve

Is there a voting system for best message?
I think David Ball's message just got my vote! What a belter!

Dear Alex,

You Alex, you may want to look here at the CanZee pump and talk to Richard Cansdale of SWS Filtration up in Morpeth about the CanZee pump and about well-jetting which is a cheap and relatively easy way of effectively making a shallow bore hole. https://www.rural-water-supply.net/en/resources/details/173 and https://www.swsfilt.co.uk/nzp/index.htm

Another option may be to look at using household slow sand filters as promoted by https://www.biosandfilter.org/biosandfilter/index.php/ and as practiced by Bushproof: https://www.bushproof.com/products/trainings/household-biosand-filtration/

Eric Fewster of Bushproof lives in Greater Manchester so is easy to get hold of and is well known at RedR UK: https://www.bushproof.com/about/shareholders/

Judging from what several respondents have said above, it sounds as if boreholes are fraught with problems in Cameroon. So depending on the strata, level of the water table and water quality it may be better to preferably treat whatever water is available to render it potable or to establish shallow boreholes and use a CanZee pump provided the strata and water at the levels suiting the pumps and well jetting is potable or good enough to simply run through a sand filter.

All the best with your projects. Power to your elbows and brains in equal measure!

Steve