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 ...

TOI file photo for representation. DEHRADUN: Going environmental friendly, Uttarakhand Peyjal Nigam has decided to motorize the hand pumps in the state using solar energy. Around 200 hand pumps are ...

Rural communities across Africa may soon benefit from improved water supplies thanks to mobile phone technology. UK researchers have developed data transmitters that fit inside hand pumps and send ...

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 ...

A random idea given by a villager during in an informal talk with Bahraich’s district magistrate in 2009 is changing the way the administration fought floods in the state. Called ‘elevated hand pumps’ ...

TIRUCHY: Even as the corporation is working towards ensuring 24x7 potable water supply across the city by next year, residents in several areas, particularly lesser developed ones, demand the 40-odd ...