Community Water Supply

Country: Ghana

The World Bank provided support to the country’s rural water supply sector by paying utmost attention to community based integration and approachs. This included wells equipped with hand pumps and other simple isolated water supply systems that were constructed solely by community participation. For water supply systems of small towns, simple centralized systems were introduced. To enable the involvement of local contractors, who lacked the capacity to deal with complicated and complex contracts, a standard contract document was required together with standard specifications and corresponding drawings.

Posch & Partners were commissioned to prepare such documents, covering a wide variety of technical solutions and split up into different volumes, which could be put together into a single document suitable for each particular case.

• Detailed design
• Preparation of:
  • simplified standard contract documents
  • standard specifications
  • standard drawings.