(17) EMAS - Mobile School for Water and Sanitation (PART ONE)

EMAS is a Mobile School for Water and Sanitation based in Bolivia, and run by Wolfgang Eloy Buchner. EMAS is also a whole technical and social concept of water and sanitation which includes manual drilling, rain water harvesting, solar water heaters, wind power, hydraulic rams, water treatment, small tanks and sinks, a variety of hand and foot pumps, and ferrocement water storage tanks.

General - introducing the EMAS technologies from EMAS on Vimeo.

General - EMAS training center in Puerto Perez from EMAS on Vimeo.

General - making pipe fittings, air chambers, etc from EMAS on Vimeo.

Well drilling - standard EMAS method from EMAS on Vimeo.

Well drilling - required materials from EMAS on Vimeo.

Well drilling - suction variant to standard EMAS method from EMAS on Vimeo.

Well drilling - sludging with temporary casing from EMAS on Vimeo.

Wells - improving an existing shallow hand-dug well from EMAS on Vimeo.

Pumps - standard EMAS handpump using pipes from EMAS on Vimeo.

Pumps - standard EMAS handpump using fittings from EMAS on Vimeo.

Pumps - EMAS high pressure handpump from EMAS on Vimeo.

Pumps - EMAS high quantity handpump from EMAS on Vimeo.