Mobile School for Water and Sanitation

About this original series

EMAS is the acronym for Escuela Móvil de Agua y Saneamiento (Mobile School for Water and Sanitation), in Bolivia, which is run by Wolfgang Eloy Buchner. EMAS is not only the name of the mobile school for water and sanitation, but also a whole technical and social concept of water and sanitation which includes rain water harvesting, solar water heaters, windpower, hydraulic rams, water treatment, small tanks and sinks, a variety of hand and foot pumps, and ferrocement tanks. More information on EMAS is available on the EMAS website.

  • # Episodes

    32 episodes

  • Rating

    TV-UN

Episodes of Mobile School for Water and Sanitation

    • Play General - Introducting the EMAS technologies - Mobile School for Water and Sanitation on Blip Mobile School for Water and Sanitation episodes on Blip

      General - Introducting the EMAS technologies

      This movie gives an overview of all the technologies used in the EMAS concept: manual well drilling, hand-powered water pumps, pedal-powered water pumps, windmills, ferrocement tanks, spring catchment, latrines, solar heating, drip irrigation, hydraulic ram.

      • Release date
        Aug 7, 2009
      • Runtime
        18:53
    • Play General - EMAS training center in Puerto Perez - Mobile School for Water and Sanitation on Blip Mobile School for Water and Sanitation episodes on Blip

      General - EMAS training center in Puerto Perez

      This movie gives a short impression of the EMAS training center in Puerto Perez, Bolivia.

      • Release date
        Aug 7, 2009
      • Runtime
        03:39
    • Play General - making pipe fittings, air chambers, and others. - Mobile School for Water and Sanitation on Blip Mobile School for Water and Sanitation episodes on Blip

      General - making pipe fittings, air chambers, an...

      This movie describes how to make different kind of pipe fittings from PVC pipe, such as T-pieces, attaching a smaller tube to a larger one, making an air chamber, and making a hole in a plastic container.

      • Release date
        Aug 7, 2009
      • Runtime
        16:04
    • Play Well drilling - standard EMAS method - Mobile School for Water and Sanitation on Blip Mobile School for Water and Sanitation episodes on Blip

      Well drilling - standard EMAS method

      EMAS manual well drilling is a method for drilling small-diameter tube wells by hand. The drilling method is a hybrid between washboring, percussion and rotary drilling. It permits to drill through all kinds of loose soils, as well as consolidated materials and light rock. It will not, however, penetrate hard original rock or boulders (e.g. ancient river beds underground). The usual diameter of the tube well is 37 mm. Movie made by Wolfgang Buchner, EMAS. More information on http://www.akvo.or...

      • Release date
        Aug 6, 2009
      • Runtime
        17:47
    • Play Well drilling - suction variant to standard EMAS method - Mobile School for Water and Sanitation on Blip Mobile School for Water and Sanitation episodes on Blip

      Well drilling - suction variant to standard EMAS...

      EMAS manual well drilling is a method for drilling small-diameter tube wells by hand. This is a variant to the standard EMAS drilling method, which is described here. The drilling method is a hybrid between washboring, percussion and rotary drilling. It permits to drill through all kinds of loose soils, as well as consolidated materials and light rock. It will not, however, penetrate hard original rock or boulders (e.g. ancient river beds underground). The usual diameter of the tube well is 37...

      • Release date
        Aug 6, 2009
      • Runtime
        12:34
    • Play Wells - improving an existing shallow handdug well with an EMAS pump - Mobile School for Water and Sanitation on Blip Mobile School for Water and Sanitation episodes on Blip

      Wells - improving an existing shallow handdug we...

      This movie shows how you can improve an existing shallow handdug well by using an EMAS hand pump.

      • Release date
        Aug 7, 2009
      • Runtime
        06:01
    • Play Well drilling - required materials - Mobile School for Water and Sanitation on Blip Mobile School for Water and Sanitation episodes on Blip

      Well drilling - required materials

      EMAS manual well drilling is a method for drilling small-diameter tube wells by hand. This movie shows the materials needed for the EMAS technique. The main movie showing the process is available .The drilling method is a hybrid between washboring, percussion and rotary drilling. It permits to drill through all kinds of loose soils, as well as consolidated materials and light rock. It will not, however, penetrate hard original rock or boulders (e.g. ancient river beds underground). The usual d...

      • Release date
        Aug 6, 2009
      • Runtime
        26:34
    • Play Well drilling - sluding with temporary casing - Mobile School for Water and Sanitation on Blip Mobile School for Water and Sanitation episodes on Blip

      Well drilling - sluding with temporary casing

      EMAS manual well driling is a method for drilling small-diameter tube wells by hand. There are different variants to the technique, depending on soil type and required depth.This technique uses sludging in combination with temporary casings of different diameter. Movie made by Wolfgang Buchner, EMAS. More information on www.emas-international.de/english/index_e.htm.

      • Release date
        Aug 6, 2009
      • Runtime
        28:40
    • Play Pumps - EMAS handpump, valves made of pipes - Mobile School for Water and Sanitation on Blip Mobile School for Water and Sanitation episodes on Blip

      Pumps - EMAS handpump, valves made of pipes

      All EMAS handpump designs use glass marbles and standard PVC fittings or pipes as return valves. Different pump designs are available for high pressure, high quantity, hand-powered, pedal-powered, and windmill powered.The valves in this design iare made from PVC pipes.

      • Release date
        Aug 7, 2009
      • Runtime
        38:27
    • Play Pumps - EMAS high quantity handpump - Mobile School for Water and Sanitation on Blip Mobile School for Water and Sanitation episodes on Blip

      Pumps - EMAS high quantity handpump

      All EMAS handpump designs use glass marbles and standard PVC fittings and pipes as return valves. Different pump designs are available for high pressure, high quantity, hand-powered, pedal-powered, and windmill powered.This pump design is specially designed for pumping larger quantities.

      • Release date
        Aug 6, 2009
      • Runtime
        39:09
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