Overview

This website is the culmination of my time designing and building aqueducts in the Peace Corps.  I worked in rural Panama.  The designs and construction were based on areas with good access to river rock and sand. The area of Panama where I served also had abundant rainfall and many springs with impermeable clay layers, ideal for intake structure construction.  The aqueducts built were all gravity-fed and had no pumps.

This website is meant to be general reference.  There are certainly better ways of doing things and your feedback is appreciated.  In addition, there may be a design or construction method that is better suited to your area.

The site is divided into three sections: designconstruction, and maintenance.  There are also other resources out there that I've started to link from the resources section.

For an overview of a gravity-fed water system, click here.