Hydraulic ram pumps and Sling Pumps

safe water - the gift of life - give safe drinking water to an african village●$1,000: Fix an Existing Well and Handpump.Rehabilitating an existing water system is the fastest, cheapestway of providing safe water to a community. You know that thereis enough water and the people are used to getting the water fromthere. Your gift will create safe water by providing a newhandpump, a sanitary cement seal and cement pad. The repairedwell will be disinfected and tested to ensure the people have safewater!●$750: Sponsor a Borehole. We will use your gift tocover the cost of a 12.19 m (40 ft) deep, 15.24 cm (6 in) diameterborehole. This includes a well screen, 7.62 cm (3 in) diametercasing, filter pack and sanitary cement grout. Your money goesinto the ground so that clean, safe water can come out!●●$500: Provide a village with a Handpump. Yourdonation will will provide a community of 100-500 people withsafe water by covering all materials and labour required to build acomplete Bush handpump. This includes the pump stand, risingmain and pump cylinder.$250: Enable villagers to build a Cement Pad.The cement pad is critical to long-term provision of safe water. Ithelps ensure that no contaminated surface runoff can enter thewell and it reduces the amount of mud around the pump.●$125: Donate a Pump Cylinder. The pump cylinder iswhat actually does the work, pumping safe water from the groundup into the waiting bucket. Quality cylinders are essential sincecylinder failure is the number one cause of pump breakdown.http://www.lifewater.ca/donate.htm (4 of 7) [1/13/2005 12:44:11 PM]