They build pumps in rural Zimbabwe, Malawi and Mozambique, funded by the bottled-water brand Thirsty Planet.
That concept is illustrated in part through 19th-century documents and photographs of plans to build pumping stations in Hoboken.
Miami Beach is trying its best to straddle the line, pushing development to generate property tax revenue, which it will use to build pumps to suck out the seawater.
Polak raised private funds to build pumps to sell back to the farmers and worked on marketing the devices as well, even getting them featured in a Bollywood movie.
This paper describes a post-operational investigation of a built pump and is thought as a proof-of-principle test to include this approach in the design process of a future pump development.
It built the biggest power plant in Alaska to provide electricity for the dredges, and it built pumping stations to provide them with water from the Chena and other rivers.
We paid a mason to build a pump house in the footprint of a crumbling pig sty, and a plumber to deal with whatever had to be done inside.
The 50-year, $50 billion Master Plan for the Coast (in 2012 dollars) includes projects to build levees, pump sediment into sinking areas, and build massive diversions on the river to reconnect it with the dying delta.
But the town had floated bonds in the 1980's to build its pumping system and could not afford the money for a new pipeline.
The company bought the 3.5 acre of land in 1862, and in 1865 it was granted permission to build a pumping station on the site.
In one infamous example, the state built a pump near a river to bring water to towns at higher elevations.
