Code of practice for Water Well Construction (Borehole drilling)

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This Nigerian Code of Practice for Well Construction was elaborated by the Technical
Committee for Water Well Construction

Groundwater development is one of the sources of the Federal and State Governments
Water Supply Intervention Programmes under which the government embarked on
the construction of open wells and boreholes in order to increase access to portable water
to Nigerians. However, water well construction is still characterized by cases of “failed
hole”, poor quality service, unprofessional conduct of drillers and lack of established
code to regulate the practice of water well drilling in Nigeria.

This Code of Practice was therefore elaborated to provide the framework for water well construction in Nigeria.

In the elaboration of this Code of Practice, references made to Nigerian Industrial standards and National standards of other countries are hereby acknowledged