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Rainwater Harvesting in Africa / A Guide to Building a Calabash Cistern

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Contributor email : info@degevuldewaterkruik.nl

Structure : Calabash tank

Dry tropical climate

Equatorial climate

Humid tropical climate

Solution proposed by : Calabash

Difficulty level :

facile

# construction

Description

Citerne  Calabash  Stocker  de  l’eau  potable  pour  les  ménages

Comment  construire  la  citerne  Calabash  de  5000  litres  en  ferrociment

La  citerne  Calabash  est  développée  en  Afrique  occidentale.  Il  peut  stocker  l’eau  de  pluie  pour  être  utilisée  comme  eau  potable  propre  aux  familles.  Le  nom  local  de  notre  projet  s’appelle  :  IAGU  LIMPO  –  TABANKA  SAN,  c’est  à  dire  EAU  PROPRE  -  VILLAGE  EN  SANTÉ.  Ce  manuel  nous  montre  les  connaissances  pratiques  de  dizaines  de  maçons.  Ensemble  nous  avons  construit  plus  de  2000  réservoirs  au  cours  de  nos  12  ans  d’expérience.  Deux  fois  par  an  nous  formons  les  invités  d’autres  pays.

 

Additional information

Difficulty level: Easy Construction time: 6 days Material cost: €240 Tools and supplies needed: Materials to purchase for a single tank: 8 bags (50 kg) of cement, 10 kg of mild steel wire, 7.5 m of chicken wire (1 m wide), 8 m of plastic sheeting (2 m wide) to protect the wet cement. (The sheet can be reused!). Tap, 2 sockets, PVC pipe, and Teflon tape (see page 27)1 D6 or D8 steel bar (50 cm) for the lid handle1 faucetMaterials to be purchased by the cistern owner:200 clay blocks (+/- 17 x 20 x 40 cm) for the mold22 wheelbarrows of sand for the mortar. Make sure the sand has a good grain and is not contaminated with clay or salt.600 L of water for the mortarTools:1 wheelbarrow3 shovels3 trowels3 cement slabs (masonry float)1 tape measure (3 m)1 leveling tool1 wire cutters1 hack1 machete or chopping knife2 brushes for cement slurry1 steel brush1 ladder to enter the tank and the mold (homemade ladder)

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