Saira International, Burkina Faso has been established in Burkina Faso, West Africa in 2002 and has since been providing and improving services of water supply.
Saira International has contributed a lot in terms of availability of spares for hand pumps all round the year. With the entry of Saira International in West Africa the prices of good quality hand pumps has become more affordable and the spares well distributed through out West Africa.
In the pursuit of providing efficient drilling service while being low priced. Saira International has acquired a fleet of 9 drilling rigs capable of drilling to depths of 600mts, it has both DTH drilling capable of drilling in hard rock and Rotary drilling capable of drilling in sedimentary/ loose formations.
Saira international has also entered the exploratory mining activities with 2 R.C drilling rigs.
Saira International has expanding its fleet of rigs with the purchase of rigs capable of drilling in deep formations of upto 600 mts. in sedimentary areas of Niger and Senegal.
With a new addition of Foremost rig (formerly known as Barber rig) which is a dual core rotary drilling rig Saira International has improved its capacity of delivering efficient water drilling services.
The drilling team personnel @ Saira International has vast experience of drilling in various formations, making Saira International a preferential private partner / service provider for various donors, international/ national Organisations, NGO's, associations and private customers.
Experience : The company has good experience in drilling boreholes and supply-installation-maintenance of pumps in Togo, Ghana, Burkina Faso, Niger, Mali, Senegal & other West African countries.
Saira International provides value added services (Tracking) to its clients, consultants and various partners on projects undertaken by it by providing tracking services of its projects which are updated in real-time. This service has enabled all partners involved in the project to obtain on-time inputs enabling them to take valuable decisions.
--all terrain drilling ability.
--Good vehicles for working in areas with poor accessibility and difficult reach.
--Ability to work at short notice.
--Availability of drilling rig spares and good preventive maintenance system for efficient delivery of services.
--Good knowledge of pumps and reasonable amount of stocks and good distribution of stocks all over the country for easy reach of the same.
--In pursuit of excellence in Quality of its services and to assure quality of products supplied by it, Saira international has acquired an hand held XRF meter from innovX to enable 100% inspection of all components purchased by it including Stainless steel, brass etc. thereby assuring customers 100% quality conformance. ( Previous to XRF meters most of the analysis were destructive and 100% quality assurance was not possible, with the advent of hand held XRF meters non destructive quality appraisal can be done)
RURAL WATER SERVICES: · Siting --- Identifying sites for the drilling of the boreholes · Drilling -- Making a choice on the type of drilling and execution of the boreholes · Borehole development – Equipping the borehole with PVC pipes, screens, gravel, making sanitary seals with bentonite and cement to prevent surface water infiltration thereby not contaminating the aquifer. · Pump testing & Calculating installation depth – For testing the yield of the borehole and also for the calculation of the installation depth of the pumps · Water quality analysis – Checking the quality of the water in a laboratory to find out if there are any undesirable elements in the water and also to know if the water is safe for drinking and it does not contain any disease causing bacteria. · Construction of platform - · Choice of Hand pumps/ installation of pumps – Each country has a choice of pumps depending on the existence of pumps and spares availability · Construction of Super Structures - · Training of pump care takers/ Mechanic – The sustenance of the pumps depends on the training of the pump caretakers and the mechanics, good training and usage methods ensures long life of the pump · Setting up & managing a viable distribution of spare parts for the pumps- In addition to the training of the mechanics the spares should be available at close range, it is therefore very essential for the setting up and managing of shops selling spares close to the project sites. URBAN/TOWN WATER SERVICES USING BOREHOLES · SITING · DRILLING OF BOREHOLES · BOREHOLE DEVELOPMENT · PUMP TESTING- YIELD TESTING AND INSTALLATION DEPTHS. · WATER QUALITY ANALYSIS · CONSTRUCTION OF OVER HEAD WATER TANKS, INSTALLATION, MAINTENANCE OF SUBMERSIBLE PUMPS, GENERATORS BACK UP SERVICES · LAYING AND MAINTENACE OF DISTRIBUTION PIPE LINES, WATER METERS · TREATMENT/DISINFECTION OF WATER
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