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A cheap water treatment system for Sudanese Gezira villages

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Title A cheap water treatment system for Sudanese Gezira villages
 
Creator Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
 
Description The Sudanese authorities are now drawing plans to build a new filtration plant using broken bricks as a simple and cheap solution to the problem of providing clean water in Sudan's irrigated Gezira area.

The population of this area related to the use of polluted canal water. In the new filtration plant canal water passes through a concrete tank containing broken locally made bricks, then through a horizontal roughening filter, and finally a standard slow filter. Clear water is handpumped from the tank

The Blue Nile project supplies the new filter to each village at a cost of about 2,400 US dollars. The plants are constructed by the villagers and one person in each village is trained in the basic maintenance of the filter and pump. All parts of the system are produced locally except plastic pipings and pumps.

There are 450 registered villages in Gezira and approximately 500 camps without proper water supply Despite the low costs, financial problems are the main constraints for its ranid adoption
The Sudanese authorities are now drawing plans to build a new filtration plant using broken bricks as a simple and cheap solution to the problem of providing clean water in Sudan's irrigated Gezira area. The population of this area related to the...
 
Date 2014-10-02T13:13:19Z
2014-10-02T13:13:19Z
1987
 
Type News Item
 
Identifier CTA. 1987. A cheap water treatment system for Sudanese Gezira villages. Spore 8. CTA, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
1011-0054
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/44618
 
Language en
 
Relation Spore, Spore 8
 
Publisher CTA
 
Source Spore