This paper proposes a framework of elements that need to be in place for continued handpump functioning, and then turns this into a diagnostic device...
The District Strategy for achieving full water coverage (2017 to 2025) provides the framework for the implementation of water activities and services...
As Ethiopia manages to develop more and more new rural water schemes – springs, wells or boreholes with hand-pumps or engines, piped water – keeping the existing infrastructure running well and safely is a challenge that gets bigger every day. And, despite some encouraging efforts, it's a challenge...
Hand Pump Mechanics are always on call to repair water sources whenever they break down. Water source repair is largely a man's world, but who says a girl cannot fit in?
IRC Burkina Faso looked into management models that would permanently reduce the number and length of breakdowns of boreholes with hand pumps in rural Burkina Faso.
