Well water pumps provide new reliability and water supply for Mongolian sheepherders. Facing economic catastrophe due to a growing water shortage, nomadic herders in the Gobi Desert in Mongolia have turned to 4-inch submersible well water pumps as part of a solution to reactivate inoperable wells.
With a population of about 2.5 million, the country of Mongolia is situated in East Asia, sandwiched between northern China and the southern Siberian region of Russia. With extremes of temperature and a very arid landscape dominated by the huge Gobi desert region, Mongolia is a place where humans and animals live on the knife-edge of environmental sustainability. Because of its strategic location as a small buffer state between Russia and China and its progress toward democracy and free markets, Mongolia is of major interest to the United States.