Rural Water Supply Network Report: Water Well Costing and Pricing Field Note

So you're stuck in Absurdistan on a USAID-funded project when the local warlord unslings his AK-47 and demands to know whether you ripped him off when you drilled his well. What do you do?

Simple - you whip out your Costing and Pricing: A Guide for Water Well Drilling Enterprises and hope the warlord reads English.

Download Costing_and_Pricing_Water_Wells

Kerstin Danert was kind enough to send me this Rural Water Supply Network (RWSN) publication.

I posted other RWSN publications on 17 July 2010 (Water Well Construction Code and Accelerating Self Supply: A Case Study from Zambia) and on 22 May 2010 - Seven Myths of the Rural Water Supply Sector.

Enjoy!

"Shame and guilt and disgrace
Are much harder than death to face." -- Uzbek proverb 

Comments

[dw]

While on the same subject:
http://www.rferl.org/content/When_Water_Dries_Up_The_Donkey_Market_Booms/2130497.html

dw

[55 gallon water barrel]

Interesting. My dad always had a well on his property when he retired (to water his plants and lawn). I always wondered about how he got permission to have a well - or if he even did get permission - and where the water came from in his suburbian home (outside Texarkana).