Hand pump

Detail of a hand pump

Hand-operated, reciprocating, positive displacement, water pump in Košice-Ťahanovce, Slovakia (walking beam pump).

Handpumps are used primarily in developing nations as a manually powered means of bringing water to the surface from a borehole, rainwater tank or well.

[edit] Gallery

A child drawing water from a handpump.

The sole water supply of this section of Wilder, Tennessee, 1942.

The covered Village Pump in Thorpe Abbots, Norfolk, England

[edit] See also

• Antique
• Arsenic contamination of groundwater
• Beer engine
• Cast iron
• Pipe
• Pitcher (container)
• Suction
• Water well
• Treadle pump

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Info on sustainable handpumps.
• Large Cast Iron Hand Pump.
• Modern Hand Lever Pump.

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