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  2. Hand pump - Wikipedia

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    The installation, maintenance and repair of deep well hand pumps is more complicated than with other hand pumps. A deep well hand pump theoretically has no limit to which it can extract water. In practice, the depth is limited by the physical power a human being can exert in lifting the column of water, which is around 30 m

  3. Tube well - Wikipedia

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    The tube well casing houses the inlet, cylinder, piston valves and rising main of a "down-the-hole" type hand pump. Casing to support the external surfaces of the borehole against collapse may be needed, either temporarily or permanently, and is often made of PVC pipe, which has the advantages of being both cheap and inert.

  4. India Mark II - Wikipedia

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    A typical Mark II hand pump in India. The pump was designed in the 1970s in a joint effort between the Government of India, UNICEF, and The World Health Organization (WHO) to address the severe drought and a water shortage affecting India during that period and to prevent evacuation of villages to refugee camps. Prior to the pump's design, poor ...

  5. Water well pump - Wikipedia

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    Hand pump, manually operated; Injector, a jet-driven pump; Mechanical or rotary lobe pump requiring mechanical parts to pump water; Solar-powered water pump; Pump driven by air as used by the Amish; Pump driven by air as used in the Australian outback; Manual pumpless or hand pump wells requiring a human operator; The pump replaces the use of a ...

  6. Borehole - Wikipedia

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    For many years, the world's longest borehole was the Kola Superdeep Borehole in Russia. From 2011 until August 2012 the record was held by the 12,345-metre (40,502 ft) long Sakhalin-I Odoptu OP-11 Well, offshore the Russian island Sakhalin. [11] The Chayvo Z-44 extended-reach well took the title of the world's longest borehole on 27 August 2012 ...

  7. Well - Wikipedia

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    Man cleaning a well in Yaoundé, Cameroon Hand pump to pump water from a well in a village near Chennai in India, where the well water might be polluted by nearby pit latrines. Shallow pumping wells can often supply drinking water at a very low cost. However, impurities from the surface easily reach shallow sources, which leads to a greater ...

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  9. Bush pump - Wikipedia

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    The bush pump, also known as the Zimbabwe bush pump, is a positive displacement pump based on lever action [1] used to extract water from a bore hole well. It is the standard hand pump in Zimbabwe, and is used in Zimbabwe and Namibia. There are approximately 40 000 pumps (2009) [2] in Zimbabwe, and annually about 3000 pumps are installed. [3]

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