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[[Image:SpringwaterCollecting.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Kenyan boy gathers water from a protected spring in Busia. <br> Photo: [http://www.povertyactionlab.org/evaluation/cleaning-springs-kenya The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab.]]]

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There are several types of systems that can be built to exact water from a spring. The most common is to build a spring box, but a lower cost and simpler in design alternative is the [http://www.lboro.ac.uk/well/resources/technical-briefs/34-protecting-springs.pdf protection of a spring with no box]. Protecting a spring without a box is cheaper than digging a well or borehole, but spring boxes are more useful as storage when demand is greater than the flow, to prevent contamination, and providing the spring with an easy way to flow into a pipe.