Pumping professionals face the ever-growing daily challenge of recommending and installing the most efficient system for customers. Digging through the uncertainties of efficiency regulations, mandates and parameters is tough, especially when efficiencies alone don’t tell the whole story.
Bess, Piglet and I recently formed a non-profit business, Ground Water International Solutions, to generate funds to purchase equipment, refurbish it and send it with the expertise to teach people in developing countries to drill water wells properly.
Two columns back, I wrote about driving over the top of a very thinly covered well pit and the rear wheels of my rig going through with the frame of the truck hitting the ground.
More than 600 million people around the world lack improved drinking water sources, according to a June 2015 UNICEF and World Health Organization (WHO) report on sanitation and drinking water.
As the groundwater industry is well aware, millions of households across the country get their water from private wells, which in many cases are not covered by the same regulations as public water resources.
