Over the past three years, Africare's Community Water and Agricultural Development Project in Nigeria has drilled seven boreholes in Nigeria. For a variety of technical and logistical reasons, two of the water systems are incomplete and four of the five formerly operational boreholes were not working as of October 1989. At the request of Africare and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Nigeria, the Water and Sanitation for Health (WASH) Project sent a drilling consultant to Nigeria in November 1989 to help local staff and communities develop solutions to recurrent problems in these water systems. The consultant was also asked to recommend ways Africare might avoid similar problems in the future in order to make the best possible use of Africare's drilling equipment and staff.