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canstruclion over the twelve year life of the well, $38,579 for<br />
the Bay Region and $46,563 for the Central Range, the current<br />
price would need to be doubled far the Bay Region, and increased<br />
to two and a half times for the Central Range,<br />
4-6, Conclusions<br />
That deep wells are expensive to construct in Somalia is<br />
hardly a recent discovery. This regort provides up-to-date<br />
infamation on exactly how expensive they axe or can Q Jlt<br />
also provides sox@ useful clues as to where savings can be made<br />
and greater efficiencies achieved,<br />
4 Weil Construction.<br />
Direct costs, though not fixed, probably cannot be varied<br />
substantially. Alternative materials and suppliers might make<br />
some i tems available at less cost. The use of PVC for screen<br />
and casing in the areas where shallow wells make it appropriate<br />
*"+:P be less expensive than steel. Reducing completed well<br />
?--~meters from 8 inch to 6 inch would also provide considerable<br />
saving without sacrifice to well construction. A Pump<br />
manufacturing or asse~hly capability in Somalia would reduce<br />
economic costs to tBe nation.<br />
Major savings can be m~de in more efficient use of<br />
equipment and vehicles. The equipment assigned to one project<br />
drilling team represents a capital investment in excess of<br />
$SQO,OOO. This sum, invested at 15%, would yield interest of<br />
$250 per xorking day. Each drilling team should therefore aim<br />
at a level of productivity equivalent to this sum. In this<br />
context, having a driffing team unable to work for Pack of fuel<br />
or spare <strong>part</strong>s can be seen as inordinately expensive, an expense<br />
Ear in excess of the cost of the fuel or spare <strong>part</strong> causing the<br />
delay, The actual downtime experiexced by the project, which is<br />
discussed in Section 4.1.3, should be considered realistic, but<br />
at the sane time unacceptably high. ~perating at this level of<br />
downtime, the wells constructed during the project appear<br />
costly.<br />
There Is, however, an alternative way to view this. Rather<br />
than an institutional support project producing expensive wells,<br />
the Comprehensive Groundwater Development Project can be seen as<br />
a well drilling project providing very expensive institutional<br />
support. The difference might appear academic until alternative<br />
ways of providing institutional support are considered. In<br />
short, the cost of combining production with on-the-job training<br />
in the drilling ind~stry is unreasonably high because of the<br />
cost of capital investment involved.