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Development of rainwater catchment systems
While visiting school compounds in several remote areas the water problem became obviously. Not only the rural population is suffering from water shortage. Even most schools facing water stress or scarcity.
Children have to cover a long path before they can catch important water for their families. Lasting for hours they are on their way without time remaining to attend to School.
Gathering places for surface water and wells
In some cases  there is only a single water point often without protection against livestock. This isn't to be taken lightly because the animal excretions water makes inedible.
In some regions there are layed out retention basins for agriculture and in a few areas you come upon wells fitted out with handle pumps.
Several kinds of water storage
Customary praxis in execution of water storages  are high rising water tanks manufactured in synthetic material for instance or multilayered walls with core concrete. More ordinary these methods are used at ground level. In either case, however, solar radiation leads to water warming and evaporation. These water storages are used for roofe catchement Systems.
Furthermore there are resources in such as surface water (rivers, lakes, reservoirs) and groundwater (wells, springs, boreholes). Each of these three water catchment Systems are state of the art actually. But there will be a combination, a more pracicable solution,  investors have to be found for.
Sampling points
Different methodes enables the rural population access to drinking water.
Most simple way still is drawing water out of rivers or lasting water points if exist or such as getting water out of wells and in scope of exisisting cisterns often be used multiple sampling points in school compounds. 

New Generation of water harvesting
Investigations lots of school buildings in remote areas of East Africa have shown the defiance of a proper foundation. In perticular the Black Cotton Soil has an extremly characteristic of shrinkage and swelling due to moisture movement through it. These changes in volume lead to tensions and consequently cracks in walls and other structural units. The Black Cotton Soil somtimes reached a depht up to 13 feet. So in according to this the swelling pressure increases.
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