Carry and store your water in solid, food-grade buckets. Clean them weekly to keep them sanitized. Take your water supply into your own hands using a manual water pump. Learn how to live well with ...

Ghaziabad: Residents in Vaishali have been facing water shortages as roadside hand pumps installed by GMC are defunct. Excessive groundwater extraction has rendered most pumps inoperative, and locals ...

The sight of people pumping groundwater into a bucket was common in the old days. While it used to be a basic tool necessary for daily life, nowadays the hand pump is regarded almost as a symbol of ...

Solar energy-powered hand pumps have been launched by a city-based company to help villagers draw water from wells without manually operating them. The system will be subsidised by the Union ...

Over 100,000 water handpumps in rural sub-Saharan Africa are broken, leaving millions without safe water. Regular maintenance ...

Hand pumps continue to be the major source of drinking water for households in rural areas, while urban India largely gets piped water supply, according to a report by the National Statistical Office ...