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[[Image:elephant pump.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Photo: [http://www.globalgiving.co.uk/photo/PIC10242/elephant-pump-at-salima-malawi-busy-elephant-pump-used/ Global Giving]]]

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The Elephant Pump, designed by Pump Aid based on a 3,000-year-old Chinese design, is built from rope, a plastic pipe, some rubber washers, and a winding wheel. The name "Elephant Pump" refers to the device's strength, shape, and reliability. The pump can lift water from depths of 50 meters (160 ft), and can produce 1 litre (0.26 US gal) of water per second.

Pumps are built in response to grassroots demand and in full consultation with the local community. The local community come together to assist in the building process, providing materials such as bricks, sand, stones and unskilled labour. The Elephant Pump can also supply water for irrigating nutrition gardens where communities can grow crops to improve their diet and sell the surplus.

<!--The pump is hand powered powered, but can be adapted to wind, solar or even a bicycle. 21 other African countries have lined up to implement similar projects. The core program of pump building in Zimbabwe has grown with 432 Elephant Pumps installed in 2012 compared to 367 in 2011. This is now a massive program with the Elephant Pumps, managed by [http://www.theafricatrust.org/ The Africa Trust], providing clean water for over 10% of the entire population of Zimbabwe. In addition to the core staff, it has been possible to provide contract work to over 40 other individuals during the course of the year.-->

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Pump Aid believes that each pump is at the heart of sustained water and sanitation improvement. Each pump we build addresses all the needs at installation point and for lifetime stewardship, including:

* Pump Build

* Community engagement

The Elephant Pump has helped to deliver clean water to over 1.1 million people since 1998, building over 8,000 pumps across 3 nations; Malawi, Zimbabwe and Liberia.

===Construction, operation and maintenance===

[[Image:elephant pump diagram.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Diagram of an elephant pump mechanics. Photo: [http://www.treehugger.com/clean-water/elephant-pump-wins-award.html Treehugger.com]]]

To break the cycle of poverty in Africa, access to clean water for drinking and water for irrigation must be improved. Pump Aid builds appropriate technology water pumps, called Elephant Pumps that can be maintained by poor rural communities without any outside assistance. Using technology that has local currency, the well is built with local sand, stone and handmade bricks. The rope plugs, integral to the design, are made by melting and moulding local waste plastics.

[[File:elephant pump diagram2.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Diagram: [http://www.aquaidwatercoolers.co.uk/the-elephant-pump Aqua Aid]]]

===Costs===

The cost of an Elephant Pump includes a full range of programme activities from installation to community training. A single pump serves a community of up to 120 people and costs on average about £3,000.

===Manuals, videos and links===

* [http://www.treehugger.com/clean-water/elephant-pump-wins-award.html Elephant Pump Wins Award]. July 2005.

* [http://sanitationupdates.wordpress.com/2010/01/11/zimbabwe-elephant-pump-prevents-water-contamination/ Zimbabwe – Elephant Pump prevents water contamination]. WASHplus, 2010.

* [http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352801X16300042 Functionality and water quality of Elephant pumps: Implications for sustainable drinking water supplies in rural Malawi] Groundwater for Sustainable Development, Volume 1, Issues 1–2, November–December 2015, Pages 129–134

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{{#ev:vimeo|61981209|200|auto|<center><font size="2">Elephant Pump - <br>Pump Aid in Malawi</font></center>}}

===Acknowledgements===

* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pump_Aid Pump Aid]. Wikipedia.

* [http://www.treehugger.com/clean-water/elephant-pump-wins-award.html Elephant Pump Wins Award]. July 2005.

* [http://www.aquaidwatercoolers.co.uk/the-elephant-pump The Elephant Pump]. Blog, by Aqua Aid. UK.

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