Sentence examples for handpumps from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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