How to build, install and maintain a rope pump.

A rope pump is essentially made up of a wheel, a rope onto which pistons or rubber washers are attached at regular intervals, a PVC pipe and a guide block located at the bottom of the well. This is an effective water pump, one of the simplest to make and maintain, even locally. It costs little.

Loic Jaffro, Inter Aide Sierra Leone, janvier 2010

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