Baptist Rural Water Technology

This page tries to provide detailed information on the Baptist method to manually drill small diameter water wells and associated topics, as developed by Terry Waller in Bolivia. The goal is to disseminate the concepts and help those who want to put them in practice.

General introduction on Wikipedia: Baptist Well Drilling.

Videos on Baptist Drilling on YouTube

Documents available from this server (last update April 2008):

Document	Format	Number of Pages	Size (Mb)
General Presentation of Baptist Drilling	Powerpoint (.pps)	10	0.7
Baptist Drilling Manual by Terry Waller	Acrobat (.pdf)	38	3.1
Baptist Drilling in Africa by Arrakis	Acrobat (.pdf)	10	0.3
Baptist Pumps	Word (.doc)	3	0.7
Build a Simple Baptist Pump	Word (.doc)	2	0.6

You can open each of these documents clicking on the hyperlink. Take into account that large files take a while to load ! You can either open them or save them directly to your computer.

For more information, write to paulcloesen@yahoo.com