![]() In this material list I am going to give you the amount of materials a project like this will take. The only power tool used in this project was a circular saw to cut the form boards and a chain saw to cut the form board from a tree. ![]() Helping to mix large batches of cement is one of the most tiring jobs I have done. (My back would love it too if I would have one here.) :) On to the building!īeing that this tower is being built in a third world country and our village has no such thing as a cement truck, everything has to be hand mixed and manually made! A LOT of manual labor. I am not responsible in any way for any hurt or injury you might face in building or using this project. It is a big dangerous project, and the tower could be dangerous. ![]() Thank you instructablers for all the great instructables! I am not responsible for any injuries or problems that may come from making or using this water tower. Many instructables are things that I will never make or don't have the opportunity or need to make, but I appreciate the ideas and knowledge they give me. This is an instructables geared more to get you thinking and give you the idea and basic instructions to building something like this. This is a big and dangerous project, so I would advise you to have have some knowledge on doing this. I want to show you in this instructables how local carpenters built this cement structure, and show you how you can do it too. I didn't build it - a project like this is pretty significant - ,but I get to see how the workers did it. Once the wooden tower started making my Dad a little to nervous we decided to have a concrete one built. The wood held up for about thirteen years which is good considering this is a rain forest and termites are ferocious. Everyone who wants continual running water has to build one. Water towers like this one are nothing new in our area. This system gives us water no mater if the villages water is running or if the electricity is off. Once in the upper tanks it is gravity fed to our house. The tower holds 800 gallons of water equaling 6,672 pounds! The water is pumped up to the tanks from a lower tank that collects rain water and the villages water. As a family living here we wanted a better solution water problem The solution: The solution is a sixteen foot tall reenforced-concrete tower that holds two water tanks on top. It also doesn't have nearly enough pressure to run over a story in height. We are very fortunate to have running water that comes from the village, but it only runs three times a day and will not run at all some days. The problem: I live in a jungle village in the Amazon rainforest. This is an instrutables about how a concrete water tower is built from scratch in a third world country. ![]() When we moved to South America my dad wanted a to give our family more modern conveniences, and thus we needed a water tower. My family spent years in Haiti where my family was without running water for years. Running water is a great blessing that many people take for granted. ![]()
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