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 ...

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 ...

Mobile phone technology is being incorporated into water pumps in order to benefit rural communities across Africa. A team from Oxford University has placed data transmitters inside the pumps; if the ...

Jharkhand's government plans to repair over 1.44 lakh hand pumps to prevent a water crisis as summer approaches. Despite ...

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 ...