Water For Life

Water for Life Appeal Fund

The Society raises funds to support the work of 'Reaching The Unreached' (RTU). This is a charity founded by Brother James Kimpton, FSC, a De La Salle Brother, and is an organisation of social workers based in a remote village in Tamil Nadu in South India. Its whole aim is to outreach to those in the greatest need at the grassroots level in the many small villages in the area.

RTU helps provide housing, medical care and nursing, care for handicapped children, education, employment and water. This last, water supply, is where funds from the Society are targeted.

Brother Kimpton is an outstanding water dowser with a success rate in excess of 90% and he has sited over 1400 boreholes bringing water to otherwise dry villages where previously the women had to walk up to 5 miles a day to fetch water.

RTU organises its own drilling team and provides simple hand pumps to bring the water to the surface.

On average it costs £300 - £500 to provide a village with good safe water and this is where the funds raised by the Society go. 100% of donated funds go to RTU as the Society covers the administrative costs from its own resources.

Typically, Brother Kimpton will visit a 'dry' village and ask where the villagers would like the water to be.

He then sketches a simple map of the village layout and map dowses the site using a pendulum and marking on the map suitable underground water flows.

The results are then followed up on the ground in conjunction with the quantity and depth of the water together with the villagers' requirements.

The precise spot to be drilled is then marked with a peg. Within a few days the drilling team is on site and drilling is carried out before a pump and concrete cap is installed.

The women in the village are trained to maintain the pump for themselves.

In some areas the wells are dug by hand with concrete rings inserted to line the walls of the well to stop the overburden and sub-soil collapsing into the water.

Please donate whatever you are able to this important charitable work in covering the costs of drilling and supplying the pumps can be met. Every month more wells are needed.

Cheques in Sterling should be made out to 'BSD Water for Life Appeal' and sent to:

The British Society of Dowsers,
2 St Ann's Road,
Malvern,
Worcs.
WR14 4RG, UK.

Tel & Fax: +44 (0)1684 576969.
Email: info@britishdowsers.org

or you can donate with your VISA, MASTERCARD over the telephone to the Society