Drinking Water for 500 Threatened Farmers

Our last report detailed finding  bore holes to initiate drilling. To date, drilling has commended 100 feet down but water can't be drawn sufficiently.  There is water but after a few hours it's gone. The technical team is figuring out the sizing of  solar panel and  submersible pump if there is a mismatch between the wattage ratio of the pump and panels.  The intial problem area indicates there isn't enough power to drive the pump to adequately pump up water to the surface . 

It could be that  the solar panels lacked power or undercapacity/underloaded  in providing electricity to the pump.  Also the tube casing used in housing the pump bended or warped up when given pressure if pump is pulled up from the deep well.  The technical team is exploring to replace this with Galvanized Iron (GI Pipe) or PVC.

Taking part in supporting the project is the local Department of Agriculture (DA)  who provided for the  pump.  A consultation is in process to assess together with them the outcome of the first attempt at drilling.  To be explored is whether there is a need to find a another site to drill again and the needed funds to finance this new attempt. 

It was suggested if more pipes could  be added with the assumption that probably the pump has not reached the bottom of the water table yet.  That could be the reason that some water are drawn out but maybe just a fraction of the total water available beneath.  

Aside from these issues, the DA might reallocate the pump to another site should this won't be able to pump up the desired water volume.  Hence there is a need  to hold an assessment with the community called Lupang Ramos ( Ramos Land), the DA and the Pro-People Engineers and Leaders (PROPEL) team to tresh out  concerns.  There is a need to explain the situation to the Department of Agriculture (DA) and to the community itself noting how important it is for them to have access to water. 

 Meatime, the community do not still have water supply supply that is regular and stable.  The thing to resolve is reaching the water level where water abound and resizing the solar panels and pump to be able to function efficiently given the depth of the well and the large of volume of water to meet demand.

Again we thank you for your support to the community who are facing not only lack of water but being threatened  as well  by big business who are pressuring to get their rich agricultural land for their commercial interest.