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Hello all,

I am currently looking into rehabilitating some small piped community water supply systems (with a motorized well pump) here in the Philippines. The issue is that the existing elevated tanks got damaged and in this earthquake and typhoon prone country, the expected lifetime of such a tower seems rather low (not even taking the low construction quality in mind).

There are some relatively cheap butyl-rubber pre-pressurized tanks available for household supply, and combining a few of those at the biggest available size would probably a possible way to go instead of constructing a new water-tower.

I am however a bit concerned about possible extra maintenance costs and also higher energy bills due to a often starting and stopping pump.

Does anyone have experiences or can point me to examples of such a towerless design in a developing country? Thanks!

Hello all,

I am currently looking into rehabilitating some small piped community water supply systems (with a motorized well pump) here in the Philippines. The issue is that the existing elevated tanks got damaged and in this earthquake and typhoon prone country, the expected lifetime of such a tower seems rather low (not even taking the low construction quality in mind).

There are some relatively cheap butyl-rubber pre-pressurized diaphragm pressure tanks available for household supply, and combining a few of those at the biggest available size would probably a possible way to go instead of constructing a new water-tower.

I am however a bit concerned about possible extra maintenance costs and also higher energy bills due to a often starting and stopping pump.

Does anyone have experiences or can point me to examples of such a towerless design in a developing country? Thanks!

Hello all,

I am currently looking into rehabilitating some small piped community water supply systems (with a motorized well pump) here in the Philippines. The issue is that the existing elevated tanks got damaged and in this earthquake and typhoon prone country, the expected lifetime of such a tower seems rather low (not even taking the low construction quality in mind).

There are some relatively cheap butyl-rubber diaphragm pressure tanks available for household supply, and combining a few of those at the biggest available size would probably a possible way to go instead of constructing a new water-tower.

I am however a bit concerned about possible extra maintenance costs and also higher energy bills due to a often starting and stopping pump.

Does anyone have experiences or can point me to examples of such a towerless design in a developing country? Thanks!