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  2. Hand pump - Wikipedia

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    Hand pumps avoid these issues and are therefore preferable. [1] However, villagers did not stop using traditional means of gathering water during this project. This was especially true when rain provided villagers with shallow water sources. These shallow wells were often easier to access than the wells with hand pumps.

  3. Pump - Wikipedia

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    A hand pump opens access to deeper groundwater that is often not polluted and also improves the safety of a well by protecting the water source from contaminated buckets. Pumps such as the Afridev pump are designed to be cheap to build and install, and easy to maintain with simple parts.

  4. Hydraulic ram - Wikipedia

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    Toward the end of the 19th century, interest waned as electricity and electric pumps became widely available. Priestly's Hydraulic Ram, built in 1890 in Idaho, was a "marvelous" invention, apparently independent, which lifted water 110 feet (34 m) to provide irrigation. The ram survives and is listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic ...

  5. Water pumping - Wikipedia

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    The pumping of water is a basic and practical technique, far more practical than scooping it up with one's hands or lifting it in a hand-held bucket. This is true whether the water is drawn from a fresh source , moved to a needed location, purified , or used for irrigation , washing, or sewage treatment , or for evacuating water from an ...

  6. Water well pump - Wikipedia

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    These pumps, often submersible and powered by electricity, can access water reserves located much deeper than shallow wells, ensuring a consistent supply even during periods of drought. They include different kinds of pumps, most of them submersible pumps: Hand pump, manually operated; Injector, a jet-driven pump

  7. Comparison of pumps - Wikipedia

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    Different types of pumps are suitable for different applications, for example: a pump's maximum lift height also determines the applications it can be used for. Low-lift pumps are only suitable for the pumping of surface water (e.g., irrigation, drainage of lands, ...), while high-lift pumps allow deep water pumping (e.g., potable water pumping ...

  8. Category:Pumps - Wikipedia

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    Hand pump; Handy billy; HCNG dispenser; High efficiency glandless circulating pump; High-density solids pump; Honda pumps; Honeywagon (vehicle) Humphrey pump; Hydraulic compressor; Hydraulic pump; Hydraulic ram; Hydristor

  9. 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.

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