Sentence examples for * handpumps from inspiring English sources

Well-kept beers gush from wood-and-brass handpumps.

The water we took from our handpumps made your skin sting, and in the monsoon, it contained worms.

As a final thought, there are 375,000 handpumps in Africa, but more than 150,000 of these are abandoned due to poor maintenance or poor construction.

The stone-flagged bar has an impressive line of handpumps at the counter serving home-brewed beers - two regulars Triple Hop and Second Brew plus four or five rotating – and other regional ales.

RICK JOHNSTON carries his "Arsenator" with him whenever he leaves his office at the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) in Dhaka to check on the handpumps, standpipes and ringwells of rural Bangladesh.

According to some estimates, a third of handpumps in Africa don't work at any one time.

That night's records repeatedly say "Extinguished by handpump" or "Extinguished by strangers with sand".

A simple broken bolt on a handpump can render it useless there are not a lot of hardware stores in the bush.

Public goods theory is applied to examine new institutional forms of handpump management.

Groundwater samples were collected in a 500 ml polyethylene bottles after pumping out the stagnant water for 20 min in handpump, in order to get representative samples.

Using unique observational data from monitoring handpump usage in rural Kenya, we evaluate how dramatic improvements in maintenance services influence payment preferences across institutional, operational, and geographic factors.