While we’re constantly on the lookout here for simple ways to do chores without electricity, sometimes slick solutions surface quite by accident. Using a hand water pump as an air compressor to pump ...

Carry and store your water in solid, food-grade buckets. Clean them weekly to keep them sanitized. Take your water supply into your own hands using a manual water pump. Learn how to live well with ...

Solar energy-powered hand pumps have been launched by a city-based company to help villagers draw water from wells without manually operating them. The system will be subsidised by the Union ...

Rural communities across Africa may soon benefit from improved water supplies thanks to mobile phone technology. UK researchers have developed data transmitters that fit inside hand pumps and send ...

There’s a century-old water well on the property across the road from my place, and it’s got something that few have any more – a deep well hand pump. It’s old and rusty, but loyal. Even though no one ...