Figure · Water pumped at home
About 16,400 pumping points are installed and idle, and can be recovered without drilling
In wells, water systems and industry, there are about 16,400 pumping points installed and idle. That is about 39% of the non-household base.
Treat the figure as a model estimate, not a count. Venezuela does not publish a register of wells.
They are in recoverable condition. Rehabilitating them costs between $98 million and $196 million. It does not require drilling a single new well.
The water operator itself confirms it with its announcements. It talks about reactivations, not drilling. One of the stations rehabilitated this year had been abandoned for twenty years.
If you sell equipment or service, your immediate market is the base that already exists and does not operate.
Before projecting sales of new equipment, it pays to ask how much of the idle base can run again.
- 16,400
- non-household pumping points are installed and idle, in recoverable condition
- It is a model estimate, not a count: Venezuela does not publish a register of wells.
- Source: C4Accel study, series Water pumped at home · low confidence
- 39%
- of the non-household base is what those points represent, approximately
- It is a model estimate, not a count: Venezuela does not publish a register of wells.
- Source: C4Accel study, series Water pumped at home · low confidence
- $98 to 196 million
- is what it costs to rehabilitate them, without drilling a single new well
- It is a model estimate, not a count: Venezuela does not publish a register of wells.
- Source: C4Accel study, series Water pumped at home · low confidence
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