'''Suction pumps'''<br>
Most In a suction pump, the cylinder is above the water table, usually near the top of the pump head. The rising main extends below the water table. When the pump is operated, during the upwards stroke it appears that water gets “sucked up” through the rising main into the cylinder. In fact, the atmospheric pressure forces the water into the area of low pressure underneath the piston. The theoretical limit to which the many locally produced atmospheric pressure can push up water is 10 metres (m). In practice, suction pumps are family can be used to lift water up to about 7 or 8 m. A suction pump needs to be full of water before it can be operated. That means the pump needs to be primed: water is poured into the pump head by the operator. This is necessary every time the pump is emptied by a leaking footvalve (in practice all footvalves leak a little, especially in inexpensive suction pumps– so the pump may need to be primed every morning, or even several times a day). Unlike community Thus, the danger exists that the well can be contaminated through polluted water used for priming. The advantage of suction pumpsis that the cylinder is normally above ground, most family pumps are not standardizedand thus easily accessible. Their design Maintenance involves replacement of seals and functioning is largely dependent on the materials valves, operations that are locally available and on user preferencecan be easily performed with few tools. Examples of suction pumps include: the [[No. 6 pump]], the [[Rope pump]], the [[Rower pump]], the [[Treadle pump]], the [[Super MoneyMaker pump]], and the [[MoneyMaker hip pump]].
'''Direct Action handpump'''<br>
Examples of the Direct Action handpump: [[Tara pump]], [[Malda pump]], [[Nira AF-85 pump]], [[Canzee pump]], [[EMAS pump]], and the [[PVC pumps]] has a direct action version.
'''Lever Action handpump'''<br>
Most deep-well handpumps are of the lever action type. The increased length of the water column in deep boreholes requires more effort to draw water and the lever of the handle makes the operation easier. Besides the conventional handle, there are also pump designs, which use a flywheel to operate a crankshaft for transforming the rotation into an up-and-down movement.
Lever action pumps consist of:<br>
1. above-ground components like pump head, pump stand and handle, which are usually made of welded mild steel components, preferably with a corrosion protection of hotdip-galvanized zinc layer.<br>
2. down-the-hole components like rising main, pump rods with plunger, cylinder and footvalve.
The configuration of the down-the-hole components can include an open-top cylinder. The plunger and the footvalve can be removed from the cylinder without dismantling the rising main. Or they can feature the conventional configuration with a small diameter rising main and a bigger cylinder diameter, which requires dismantling of the rising main for repairs on plunger or footvalve.
Examples of a Lever Action pump include: [[Kabul pump]], [[Jibon pump]], [[Walami pump]], [[U3M pump]], [[Afridev pump]], [[Afridev with bottom support]], [[Indus pump]], [[Pamir pump]], [[India Mark 2 and 3]], and the [[Bush pump]].
====Rotary handpumps====