Rainwater recovery tank and drinking water production
For more than twenty years, EUFOR INTER has been advising, distributing (sales & aftersales) and installing storage tanks made by LABARONNE-CITAF – the inventors of flexible storage – from Belgium throughout the BeNeLux, Germany and for exports.
Since 1959, LABARONNE-CITAF has been designing and industrialising flexible solutions made from highly resistant coated polyester textiles for the storage, treatment and transport of various liquids.
Today, tanks are available in capacities ranging up to 2,000 m3 each.
More than 3,000 flexible tanks are manufactured each year and installed worldwide on behalf of civil protection services, the military, firefighting services, humanitarian organisations, municipalities, farmers, industry, construction and environmental actors.
Each range of tanks is specially adapted to the liquids that they store:
Industrial textiles and specialised equipment for specific applications and user requirements.
The success and longevity of the Labaronne-Citaf brand are a testament to its manufacturing quality, expertise, and distribution network.
EUFOR INTER has been partners with LABARONNE-CITAF since 1996.
Certified and exclusive distributor in the BeNeLux and for exports.
A number of projects have been completed in Africa, including the RDC:
Humanitarian, agricultural and industrial projects, including palm oil plantations.
RAINWATER RECOVERY TANK IN THE CONGO
In 2015, the Belgian ONG IPAMEC called upon EUFOR INTER to come to the aid of the displaced populations from Katanga who were the victims of ethnic cleansing in 1993.
More specifically, the project was to unfold in the village of CIBOMBO (15,000 displaced persons from Katanga), 12 km from MBUJI-MAYI, the capital of the western Kasaï province, a region devastated by rampant famine and cholera threatening to decimate the population, in part due to a severe lack of access to drinking water.
In close collaboration with IPAMEC volunteers, a simple and ingenious rainwater collection system was developed and delivered by EUFOR INTER in the RDC.
The ONG organised the transport of the equipment to Cibombo in the bush, as well as on-site installation and commissioning with help from the local population.
In 2016 and 2018, EUFOR INTER manufactured and exported 2 rainwater storage tanks, with a capacity of 500,000 litres each:
LABARONNE-CITAF © 2 x 500.000 L – Industrial quality FAB HPVi14
Dimensions 22.70 m x 16,28 m – H max ≤ 1.60 m – fully equipped as per the attached diagram.
Each flexible tank is deployed on a fenced-off platform surrounded by a rainwater harvesting trench. The trenches are filled with filtering gravel to provide a layer of natural filtration. A waterproof liner is stretched over the entire surface and across the bottom of the trenches, making the water collection surface waterproof and protecting against external contamination. The rain water harvesting trenches are slightly sloped to guide the water into a catchment basin where a submersible pump is installed to raise the water and gradually fill the tank during the monsoon season.
See the attached diagram.
This water is then stored in a water tower, treated to make it safe to drink (chlorine tablets) and distributed to the population in village water fountains.
Access to drinking water helped to eradicate the cholera epidemic.
News article attached.
