Human and animal powered water lifting devices
Practical Action
References and resources
Human-Powered Handpumps for Water Lifting Technical Brief Practical Action
Treadle Pumps Technical Brief Practical Action
Low Lift Irrigation Pumps Technical Brief WEDC
Maintaining Handpumps Technical Brief WEDC
Handpumps Technology Note WaterAid
VLOM pumps Technical Brief WEDC
How To Make and Use The Treadle Irrigation Pump
by Carl Bielenberg and Hugh Allen, Practical Action Publishing, 1995.
How to Make a Rope-and-Washer Pump by Robert Lambert, Practical Action Publishing,
1990.
Human and Animal-powered Water-lifting Devices
by W. K. Kennedy & T. A. Rolgers. Practical Action Publishing, 1985.
Smart Water Solutions: Examples of innovative low cost technologies for wells, pumps,
storage, irrigation and water treatment, Netherlands Water Partnership, 2006
The Treadle Pump: Manual Irrigation for Small Farmers in Bangladesh by Alastair Orr, A.
S. M. Nazrul Islam, & Gunner Barnes, Rangpur Dinajpur Rural Service – RDRS
Tools for Agriculture - a buyer's guide to appropriate equipment
Introduction by Iab Carruthers & Marc Rodriguez, Practical Action Publishing, 1992.
Water Lifting Devices, FAO Irrigation and Drainage Paper 43, PL Fraenkel, 1986
Water Pumping Devices - A Handbook 3rd Edition
by Peter Fraenkel & Jeremy Thake, Practical Action Publishing, 2006.
Organisations
IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre
P. O. Box 93190
2509 AD
The Hague
Netherlands
Tel: +31 70 3314133
Fax: +31 70 3814034
E-mail: general@irc.nl
Website: http://www.irc.nl
The IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre (IRC) facilitates the sharing, promotion and
use of knowledge so that governments, professionals and organisations can better support poor
men, women and children in developing countries to obtain water and sanitation services they
will use and maintain.
Netherlands Water Partnership (NWP)
Postbus 82327
2508 EH Den Haag
Tel: 070 304 3700
Fax: 070 304 3737
Tel: +31 (0)15 215 17 28
Fax: +31 (0)15 215 17 59
E-mail: info@nwp.nl
Website: http://www.nwp.nl/
The Netherlands Water Partnership (NWP) is an independent body set up by the Dutch private
and public sectors. They nationally coordinate water activities overseas and provide relevant
information regarding these activities.
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