The study reports a survey of the operational characteristics of a number of tubewells selected in Faisalabad tehsil focussed at estimating the recoverable hydraulic energy of the free fall of tubewell discharge below the delivery point of the tubewells. The discharge of the surveyed tubewells hnged from 18.4 to 48.1 Ips and the height of free fall below the delivery pipe ranged from 1.1 to 2.0 m. The hydraulic energy of the jet averaged to 0.45 kW that could yield a break power of 0.2 kW through a water wheel designed for the purpose. Such a recoverable hydraulic energy of free fall can be utilized to run small farm machines such as tool grinder battery charger and mixer etc. instead of traditionally dissipating and losing the energy trough masonry tanks
