A simple water pump is helping to improve the lives of poor families in several Asian and African countries.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

There have been several proposals to pump water into the Dead Sea from the Red Sea or the Mediterranean.

VOA: special.2009.05.18

The treadle pump is easy to build from bamboo or other wood and two metal cylinders with pistons.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

The treadle pump is based on a design developed in the nineteen seventies by Norwegian engineer Gunnar Barnes.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

He's not breathing and we're trying to pump him but he's not -- " "OK,OK.How old is he?"

VOA: special.2009.06.27

As a final step there are plans to pump in mud and cement from below through relief wells.

VOA: special.2010.08.07

They cannot harm themselves because the amount of painkiller in the pump is carefully measured and limited.

VOA: special.2010.05.04

How many hours a day the pump needs to be operated depends on the season and how much water is needed for crops.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

Between thirty and thirty-five women used each system to pump water from the ground or a stream.

VOA: special.2010.01.11

One combines the use of hands to pump the victim's chest with rescue breathing.

VOA: special.2009.08.11

Uttar Pradesh has three treadle pump manufacturers and more than seventy-three thousand pumps.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

One is a pump that lets patients give themselves pain medications as needed.

VOA: special.2010.05.04

Her father was a pump operator for the city water department.

VOA: special.2009.01.12

Everyone in the family can take turns operating the pump.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

The Henry Milker is a hand-operated vacuum pump.

VOA: special.2010.07.20

People with heart failure tend to gain weight because fluids build up when the heart can't pump enough blood.

VOA: standard.2010.06.04