Avoid power-outage droughts by learning how to add a hand pump to an electric well to be able to access water even when the power is out. A few years back, a severe ice storm knocked out my family’s ...

While we’re constantly on the lookout here for simple ways to do chores without electricity, sometimes slick solutions surface quite by accident. Using a hand water pump as an air compressor to pump ...

Mobile phone technology is being incorporated into water pumps in order to benefit rural communities across Africa. A team from Oxford University has placed data transmitters inside the pumps; if the ...