VLOM: Village Level Operation and Maintenance

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VLOMVillage Level Operation and Maintenance
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Case Study Kickstart SuperMoneyMaker Pump

• Originally Approtec Kenya-based non-profit
• Developing technologies for entrepreneurs
• IDEO as design/engineering consultancy
• Focus water for irrigation so entrepreneurs can
  sell crops

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Kickstart Intermediate Lift

• Pump classifications
• Suction pumps 0 - 7 meters
• Low lift pumps 0 - 15 meters
• Direct action pumps 0 - 15 meters
• Intermediate lift pumps 0 - 25 meters
• High lift pumps 45 meters
• Current EWB need

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Design for Maintenance

• All parts available from local metalworking and
  fix-it shops
• No specialized labor necessary
• If a part breaks, the pump can be fixed and put
  back to use quickly

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Impact

• Impacts of KickStart MoneyMaker Pumps to date
• 45,000 pumps in use by poor farmers
• 29,000 new waged jobs created
• 37 million per year in new profits and wages
  generated by the pumps
• More than 50 of pumps managed by women
  entrepreneurs
• 4 manufacturers producing pumps
• over 400 retailers selling pumps in Kenya,
  Tanzania and Mali

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Play Pump

• Uses energy from children playing to pump water
  into a storage tower
• Storage tower supports advertising
• Effective up to 100m depth
• Up to 1400 Liters of water per hour

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AfriDev Pump

• Popoular public domain pump capable of bringing
  water up to 60m
• Has been hybridized with India Mark II pump
  hybrid able to pull up to 80m

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Elephant Pump

• Extreme low-tech uses recycled plastic discs to
  pull water up a pipe from well
• Mechanism can be enclosed to far exceed WHO
  guidelines for water quality
• Improved designs can pull water from up to 60m
  depth