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 ...

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 ...

The sight of people pumping groundwater into a bucket was common in the old days. While it used to be a basic tool necessary for daily life, nowadays the hand pump is regarded almost as a symbol of ...

Hand pumps continue to be the major source of drinking water for households in rural areas, while urban India largely gets piped water supply, according to a report by the National Statistical Office ...

Imagine my surprise when I saw a hand pump that looked exactly like the ones I had seen in India. I took a closer look and ...