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The WASH program consists of latrines connected to septic tanks, hand-wash stations and hand-pumps replacing older pumps, some of which could not tap water deep enough to bypass polluted levels, while others were stolen after the 30-family hamlet's initial evacuation.
Joop Koopman: Promoting Grassroots Recovery In Pakistan Joop Koopman 2011
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The WASH program consists of latrines connected to septic tanks, hand-wash stations and hand-pumps replacing older pumps, some of which could not tap water deep enough to bypass polluted levels, while others were stolen after the 30-family hamlet's initial evacuation.
Joop Koopman: Promoting Grassroots Recovery In Pakistan Joop Koopman 2011
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The WASH program consists of latrines connected to septic tanks, hand-wash stations and hand-pumps replacing older pumps, some of which could not tap water deep enough to bypass polluted levels, while others were stolen after the 30-family hamlet's initial evacuation.
Joop Koopman: Promoting Grassroots Recovery In Pakistan Joop Koopman 2011
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While hand-pumps in most of the 55000 villages of the state have either gone dry or spew only noxious fluids, most of the cities and towns, barring those in the northern fringes of the state where last monsoon was bountiful, depend on tankers ferrying water over long diatances.
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In 1995, about 3,300 wells, equipped with hand-pumps, served the rural population in the lowlands, while 10 percent of the urban domestic production originated from groundwater.
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He hand-pumps them over the rails twelve miles to the lumberyards.
Fall On Your Knees Macdonald Ann-Marie 1996
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He hand-pumps them over the rails twelve miles to the lumberyards.
Fall On Your Knees Macdonald Ann-Marie 1996
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Describing water as the most universally recognised need and a common denominator in nutrition, Riba project manager Carlos Madrid says one goal is to drill 20 boreholes and fit them with hand-pumps so villagers can spend time doing other things beside fetching water.
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Dams in the area are empty and hand-pumps at public boreholes have not been repaired since breaking down three months ago, according to locals.
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