Free training borehole siting and free VES machine (Zambia wide)

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Free training borehole siting and free VES machine (Zambia wide)

 Zambia wide free training borehole siting

& making of your own VES equipment

Especially after the poor rainy season, all eyes are on water. Boreholes in good locations, create access to groundwater, reduce hunger and poverty and increase health. Drilling boreholes is a costly and risky undertaking. Finding a good site can significantly reduce that risk.

The Zambian WAter Resource Management Authority ( WARMA ) requires that before drilling, a survey is conducted to determine its best location. This is called "borehole siting".

However, Zambia currently does not have enough professional "borehole siters" to cover the entire country. As a result, drilling companies and their clients are often forced to take the risk and drill without knowing the optimal location.

It is like gambling: "in the end, the casino always wins" and the average player loses. In other words, the government, NGOs and individuals will save a lot of money if someone can find the most suitable location for a borehole for them.

 

Good news:

Professionally locating the best place for a borehole need not be expensive.
Jacana is ready to train people to become professional borehole siters. Not only do we train the technique of locating the best place, we train also making an affordable Vertical Electrical Sounding machine. During the training, participants make their own machine so that they can start working immediately after finishing. All thanks to the support of the SKAT foundation.

 

Technology

The following video briefly explains how affordable professional soil testing works and what will be covered during the training.

Borehole siting tutorial

Professor James Clark developed an affordable system for this soil survey, using the same physics approach as the very expensive commercially available equipment.

Jacana has already trained several small-scale entrepreneurs in three districts in eastern Zambia. They are able to make their own equipment, conduct advance professional surveys with it and generate income. These entrepreneurs have gained the trust of many manual and machine borehole drillers. Jacana is also experiencing the positive impact of their work with the hundreds of boreholes drilled (see https://jacana.help/mwater).

 

Are you active in the Zambian water sector and want to add borehole siting services to your business?

The course is FREE for participants who are in the Zambian water sector and bring a list of GPS-coordinates with water levels from already existing wells in their area. During the course, you will make your own equipment and learn how to use it.

The training will start on 27 August 2024 in Lusaka and last four days.

Register here: https://jacana.help/news/register-now-for-borehole-siting-training/ 

(participation is only possible for those who register through this way).
 

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