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[[Image:StoneLiningHandDugWell.jpg|thumb|right|200px| Placing a stone lining in a hand dug well. Chiapas, Mexico. Photo: [http://www.flickr.com/photos/aamv/366661815/ The Maya Village Project.]]]
===Field experiences===
The following projects are utilizing hand dug well techniques. <br>{{RSR_table|1image=project 1365.jpg |1link=http://rsr.akvo.org/project/1365/ |1project#=1365 |1project name=Facilities Ibbagamuwa school Sri Lanka ||2image=project 1349.jpg |2link=http://rsr.akvo.org/project/1349/ |2project#=1349 |2project name=Safe water <br>for Wajir ||3image=project 822.png |3link=http://rsr.akvo.org/project/822/ |3project#=822 |3project name=Urban WASH II <br>in Monrovia ||4image=project 894.png |4link=http://rsr.akvo.org/project/894/ |4project#=894 |4project name=Senjeh Well <br>Restoration ||5image=project 896.png |5link=http://rsr.akvo.org/project/896/ |5project#=896 |5project name=Gboto Well <br>Restoration |}}{| style="border: 2px solid #e0e0e0; width: 7060%; text-align: justify; background-color: #f5f5f5e9f5fd;" cellpadding="2"|- style="vertical-align: top"|[[Image:akvorsr logo_lite.png|center|60px|link=http://akvo.org/products/rsr 1365/]]|- style="vertical-align: bottom"|[[Image:project 922.jpgpng |thumb|nonecenter|200px140px|<font size="2"><center>[http://rsr.akvo.org/project/922/ RSR Project 922]<br>WaterAid Rural <br>WASH Project 1365</center></font>|link=http://rsr.akvo.org/project/922/ ]]|'''Akvo RSR Project[[Image:''' project 933.png |thumb|center|140px|<font size="2"><center>[http://wandelenvoorwater2014rsr.akvoappakvo.org/enproject/933/ RSR Project 933]<br>Accelerating Sanitation and Water for All 1</center></font>|link=http://rsr.akvo.org/project/1365933/ Facilities Ibbagamuwa school Sri Lanka]] Ibbagamuwa Central College in the North Western Province rural school with 1040 children grade 6, 7, 8 and 32 teachers will make use of the new facilities|[[Image:project 1330.png |thumb|center|140px|<font size="2"><center>[http://rsr.akvo. These children come from poor families and don't live in the neighborhoodorg/project/1330/ RSR Project 1330]<br>WASH services & capacity building Liberia</center></font>|link=http://rsr. Daily many children must travel to and from school for 6 hoursakvo. Water is life, blood of the earth!org/project/1330/ ]]
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===Manuals, videos and links===
* [http://www.indiawaterportal.org/articles/well-revival-effort-sees-many-other-benefits Well revival effort sees many other benefits] A community drive to revive wells in Mokhla talab near Udaipur results in water security for longer periods of time as well as making leaders out of women.
* [http://www.indiawaterportal.org/articles/experiments-community-wells Experiments with 'community wells'] Mobilized farmers in Dhule, Maharashtra, show how communities can use groundwater as a common resource in an organised and collective manner.
* [http://www.rural-water-supply.net/en/resources/details/256 Hand dug shallow wells (Skat)]. Includes construction information plus covers lining options. Also a good section on environmental, social, and cultural considerations. Swiss Centre for Development Cooperation in Technology and Management.
* [http://www.rural-water-supply.net/en/implementation/hand-dug-wells Hand Dug Wells] section of the Rural Water Supply Network website
* [http://www.consallen.com/welldigging/ Consallen]. An excellent guide to a relatively safe method of digging hand dug wells by the highly experienced British Drilling Company.
* [http://www.fao.org/docrep/X5567E/x5567e06.htm#5.%large%diameter%wells Large Diameter Wells]. An excellent but slightly outdated summary of hand dug wells by Koegel, made available by the UN FAO.
* [http://www.clean-water-for-laymen.com/hand-dug-wells.html Hand Dug Wells and Other Manual Methods to Dig a Well Have Been in Existence for Thousands of Years]. Compares different methods of digging a well, includes hand-dug method.