By Vincent Gunde
The Dowa District Council’s Water Resources Office, has hailed Design Outreach Technologies for its improved Afridev Centralizer which is called Maxlife Rod Centralizer, the project which will see many boreholes in the district lasts long with little maintenances.
The Council’s Assistant Water Resources Officer Geoffrey Perekamoyo, said Design Outreach Technologies has come with a new initiative which when fitting to the rod, it can take two to three years without maintenance of boreholes as compared to the previous fittings.
Perekamoyo said the Maxlife Rod Centralizer has a complex plastic designed to float in the borehole Rod pipes making water to be passing out easily.
He said the initiative is good to the communities involved in Bank pa mjigo that they will be taking long to buy materials for maintenance which previously they used to buy frequently.
The officer said the council has received the initiative describing it as timely coming at a time when most of the boreholes in the district have been abandoned due to maintenance materials problems.
” Communities in Bank pa mjigo will be saving money in their accounting books as the initiative will be taking long to be brocken,” said Perekamoyo.
Speaking when presenting the project to the District Coordinating Team (DCT) in Dowa, Design Outreach Technologies Operation Manager Hafez Jamal, said Maxlife Rod Centralizer is a new initiative to borehole repairing, saying it is durable and can last for three years.
Jamal said Design Outreach Technologies has come to Dowa district to repair 400 boreholes expecting a good outcome from the communities to benefit with the new initiative.
He said the project is being implemented in the two districts of Dedza and Lilongwe and now it has come to Dowa expressing optimistic that the project will be beneficial to all borehole users in the district.
” This project will be a relief on the burdens the communities are facing in borehole repairing,’ said Jamal.
He said Design Outreach Technologies is not new in Dowa district saying they have been implementing a similar initiative at the Dzaleka Refugee Camp for years piloting it.
Jamal expressed hope that the initiative will be rolled out in all districts across the country saying they are repairing 400 boreholes in each district and they have started with Dedza and Lilongwe.
