Solar pump systems can be constructed at any scale from a backyard pond to broad acre irrigation. This Instructable demonstrates how to construct a multipurpose solar pump system that enables water transfer to storage from a creek, irrigation of 5Ha from a creek or the dam and providing drinkin...
The windmill pump cylinder. Each up-stroke (figure on right) pulls a certain amount of water into the cylinder, but on the down-stroke (left) a check valve in the bottom won’t let it be pushed out, so the water has nowhere to go but up with the next upstroke. In the late 1880...