Safe water for Africa (Africa-1000)

Author

Dalton, Randy ; Kashkari, Chaman

Author_Institution

505 West Leigh Street, Richmond, VA, USA

Volume

3

fYear

1996

fDate

11-16 Aug 1996

Firstpage

1523

Abstract

Africa-1000 is a program to provide safe water to thousands of villages in Africa. It is a formidable effort and needs the support of the international scientific community. Africa-1000 is a program of digging and drilling thousands of wells which would be equipped with photovoltaic, windmill and/or handpumps, to produce water for drinking and irrigation and electric power for health centers, lighting, vaccine refrigeration, communication and basic village industry. When fully operational, the program will provide water to 1000 villages per year, hence its name. The authors describe the main concepts of Africa-1000 including the four phases of the project: program design, pilot projects, operations and control center, and large-scale program implementation

Keywords

lighting; photovoltaic power systems; pumps; refrigeration; telecommunication power supplies; water supply; wind turbines; Africa-1000; basic village industry; communication; control center; drinking water; electric power; handpumps; health centers; irrigation; large-scale program implementation; lighting; operations center; photovoltaic powered pumps; pilot projects; program design; vaccine refrigeration; villages; water supply; well digging; well drilling; windmill powered pumps; Africa; Beverage industry; Communication industry; Drilling; Electrical equipment industry; Irrigation; Photovoltaic systems; Refrigeration; Solar power generation; Vaccines;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Energy Conversion Engineering Conference, 1996. IECEC 96., Proceedings of the 31st Intersociety

Conference_Location

Washington, DC

ISSN

1089-3547

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3547-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IECEC.1996.553324

Filename

553324