Drilling boreholes in Burkina Faso is a tall task despite global advances made in soil data collection and classification, groundwater data, drilling technologies and equipment and access to renewable energy. Most boreholes are low in water flow rate despite reaching an average 90m depth. In many irrigation projects and sometimes in drinking water provision, we tend to run into lack of water in the dry months from wells and boreholes leading to stoppage and sometimes loss of production. The issue seems to be at 2 levels: 1) Bad selection of drilling areas: various way to detect potential drilling areas at the ground surface are used but most of them seems to lead to low water boreholes in the majority of cases 2) Lack of cost and energy efficient equipment to drill deeper to unlock the full potential of aquifers.