Water Well Design 5.0

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Rural villagers face several challenges when relying on hand pumps for water access as pumping water can be physically demanding, requiring significant effort, especially for women who may already be burdened with household chores and other work.

When water is withdrawn faster than it's replenished, the water table lowers, potentially causing wells to dry up. This can be prevented through a combination of monitoring, regulation, and sustainable practices which are dependent on responsible consumption of operators and there is no system that could force them not to pump excessive water from the well, until now

This project is about building a new kind of water well that does not need any power source except weight of people to pull water out from the ground up by using pascal’s law.

This is done by using the wall casing of the well as a large cylinder with surface area A1, a plate that act as piston on the static water level which is 4.76m to 7.8 meter depth so that a person(s) can stand on it acting as a self-pushing piston rod with force of F1 to push the water found at the static water level down forcing the water up in to the pipe with surface area A2 found on a center of the well with high force of F2 to direct it in to water tank found higher elevation. 

The people who stand on the large pistons use an extendable ladder or rope ladder to go up without affecting the operating system of the piston. This water well is also equipped with non-return valve at the base of the cylinder where ground water can enter the well but not out of it which only force user to use the water available at the cylinder rather than over pumping the ground water distributing the water table. 

It also use a weight balance system to push the piston downward incase weight of person is not enough to overcome the pressure of the water in the well. This will automate the whole system avoiding a person contact by using the water tank as a counter balance weight when enough weight water enters in to it. In opposite side of the weight balance there will be a load of X Kg enough to push water in the well to Y meter depth. Ideally the load weight and the water tank full of water have same weight. When the water tank is empty the load in the well will push the ground water down ward filling the water tank. As the water tanks starts to fill up it will start pulling the load up balancing the weight which will act as an automatic filling mechanism. When people use the water in the water tank the load will start pushing the piston down ward starting the filling process again. 

Its expected that the ground water upon returning to static water level will push the piston up resetting the system. This is verified via analysis https://hackaday.io/project/202915-water-well-design-50/log/240174-piston-plate-return-analysis.

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  • About the Entrant

  • Name:
    Anteneh Gashaw
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