Hand Powered Water Pumps

The Bush pump can be made locally with ease; the parts can be modified to what the local village carries.

Over the years the bush pump has become the world’s most robust and widely used locally made hand pump.

“The Bush pump is built around a down-hole cylinder containing a piston.

It is called a “positive displacement pump” because it displaces an amount of water equal to the distance the piston travels” (“Bush Handpumps for clean
drinking water”)