The contract would help the brewery company reduce its inventory of equipment in pubs such as handpumps used to dispense drinks from 7 million pound sterling to 4 million pound sterling. ❋ Unknown (2009)
By working with local organizations, FACE Africa helped to build wells, install handpumps, construct latrines and educate the community in hygiene and sanitation. ❋ The Huffington Post (2011)
The pub served Bass, Brains Bitter and Dark and when the driptrays below the handpumps were full, they were emptied into buckets behind the bar. ❋ FIDO The Dog (2009)
Not true at all, the strengths are all labeled on the bottles, same with handpumps. ❋ FIDO The Dog (2009)
Rates of actual extraction are low and most boreholes are fitted with handpumps with capacities between 0.6 and 1.2 m3/hr depending on the pumping head. ❋ Unknown (2008)
UNICEF was also drilling thousands of wells fitted with handpumps, just one of which could serve five hundred families. ❋ Ewan McGregor (2007)
There are 85 handpumps, boreholes, taps and wells in the entire district, translating to one for every 700 persons. ❋ Unknown (2006)
"We will have installed 39 new handpumps between now and the end of June next year," Simao Nhassengo, a water expert at the ❋ Unknown (2006)
In the meantime, they form snaking queues in from of handpumps to access water. ❋ Unknown (2006)
The elimination of the mechanical advantage (which, for example, deep-well handpumps have through a lever or flywheel) restricts the application of direct-action pumps to the depth from which an individual can physically lift the column of water (about 12 m). ❋ Unknown (2000)
Direct-action handpumps are usually made of PVC and other plastics and installed on boreholes of limited depth. ❋ Unknown (2000)
For example, handpumps are now designed to be more robust and easier to repair. ❋ Unknown (2000)
The management of handpumps systems will be reviewed in the next session on community management. ❋ Unknown (2000)
Some have installed hundreds of handpumps and presumed that market mechanisms would impel local hardware dealers to provide the needed parts. ❋ Unknown (2000)
The same methodology can be applied for handpumps, although much more simple. ❋ Unknown (2000)