Drilling a Million Boreholes for Africa's Water Shortage
Some experts say that Africa will need to drill up to a million boreholes to supply them with sufficient safe and clean water for the next decade. Estimates for Ethiopia by itself has been thought to need 80,000 boreholes for water wells.
This amount of well drilling will supply the country with safe clean drinking water. Just for East Africa alone an investment of a billion dollars is thought to be needed to pay for this over the next decade.
It's a sad truth that 6,000 African's die every day through drinking dirty risky water. The African population have to hike miles and miles to bring this water in cans or plastic containers, this water if often grimy and not fit for human consumption, but often there are no alternatives.
Some of us here in the UK need to consume about 2 liters per day to sustain life but in Africa the people need to drink more because of the intense temperatures and the risk of dehydration.
In England we have little appreciation for our water supply. Now think about how much water is wasted each day in our daily routine. For example, we can use up to 8 liters per flush of our toilet system and leaving the tap running whilst brushing our teeth can waste up to 10 litres of water.
The Environment Agency has stated that every person in the United Kingdom uses an average of 140 liters per day WOW! When did you last go to the tap and start trying to drink this quantity? The most I can drink is about two liters a day and that is in beer and tea !
What's left from what the average individual in the UK drinks is 138 liters, this is possibly used up with toilet flushing; cleaning teeth, car washing, leaking taps, broken mains, etc .This list could be endless.
See if you could set aside half of this wasted water per day and ship it to Africa in a container ship. This would amount to around 70 liters per person per day and would go a long way to fight Africa's water shortage.
A better way to sort out this problem would be to make a contribution say of £1 per person per year. Just from the Untitled Kingdom this is a figure of £60 Million per year. This would go a long way to supplying Africa with drilling rigs to drill their boreholes and also equip them with the necessary training to be able to drill a water well for themselves.
It would be nice if as a nation we could think about ways to help and remember the ones that have no taps to turn on, the ones that stride miles and miles a day to obtain water.
Consider always, water is a gift of nature, it is just harder for some people to acquire than others.
OUR AIM........
Our aim is to reduce the number of boreholes needed in Africa ever year by building good quality drilling rigs for this specific use. Our rigs are built to last up to 20 years with the ability to drill up to 50 boreholes per year.
