SIWIL is a pipe lifting device that is called after its developers SIbanda Zanamwe and WILlem Harderwijk. It was designed as a more practical and... Read more...
External Support Agencies each choosing different hand pumps for their projects can lead to great difficulties for Village Level Operation and... Read more...
Kenyan peasant farmers are moving into agricultural areas abandoned by white farmers. Due to the newness of the settlements (less than 10 years) a... Read more...
A WaterAid project in rural Ghana uses two technologies for constructing hand-dug wells: concrete-lined and block-lined. The concrete-lined method... Read more...
Short descriptions with illustrations are given of the following manually operated pumps which are suitable for small-scale irrigation: the rower... Read more...
Almost out of necessity, a FINNIDA project in the Western Province of Kenya, turned to women to recruit as hand pump mechanics. Read more...