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RE-ASSESSING
THE PERFORMANCE OF THE BUCKET PUMP - A SIMPLE WATER By Dr. Costantino Faillace |
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RE-ASSESSING
THE PERFORMANCE OF THE BUCKET PUMP - A SIMPLE WATER By Dr. Costantino Faillace |
| Advantages of the Bucket Pump with Respect to
Mark II and Mark III Hand-pumps 1. The bucket pump requires only minor maintenance as no mechanical parts are involved. The only requirement is to put some grease periodically on the bearings of the drum and to replace, after some years, the steel rope and the cylinder. This minor maintenance can easily be done by the villagers. 2. The bucket pump is easily accepted by the people as it is an improved version of their traditional way of collecting water. 3. It can be manufactured locally in a welding workshop. 4. It can be installed in boreholes as shallow as 60-70 ft deep and even shallower for high yielding boreholes as in the case of the well in Lakhivali Gambhul Pada (Bhiwandi Taluka) which has a depth of 28 ft only. 5. Its cost is only 30% of that of a 200 ft government borehole equipped with a hand pump. |