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water problems in the Sahelian Zone of Africa

I have worked in the Sahel in Mali and Mauritania. Also, Sierra Leone, Somalia, ex-Zaire, Tunisia   Define Water Problem for me.  If you mean a government agency setting up a small city to drill a a 300 meter well – that is a social problem.  I can have the same well drilled and finished in two or three days.  If you mean a government agency wanting to drill wells in ex-Zaire, that is a program that provides great opportunities for theft when sweat equity projects are the best approach.  If you mean drilling programs in Somalia that fall behind because of lack of diesel, that is because of diesel truck drivers who sell the diesel from their tanker truck en route to the drilling site or the provision of project diesel to other government departments rather than providing it to the project (only to be sold en route).  So, I guess you need to define “problem”.