LifePump
Desing Outreach
LifePump is a deep-well, progressive cavity hand pump designed to provide continuous water for rural communities.
LifePump is a progressive cavity hand pump. It is designed by humanitarian engineering nonprofit Design Outreach in partnership with World Vision, private donors and SEEPEX, a German-based pump manufacturer from Ohio which manufactures and provides the PC pumping element—the rotor and the stator—for the LifePump.
It is engineered for rural communities in need of water access, to reach depths of 100 meters, be long lasting and continuously supply a flow of water to the surface with the turn of its handle making it possible for anyone, regardless of strength or size, to access water – even children.
Africa, specifically Zambia, Kenya, Ethiopia, Malawi and Mali and other developing countries in need of deep well water access such as Haiti.
Design Outreach partners with other organizations such as World Vision and Water for Good to implement LifePumps.
Other major partners that have helped make the LifePump a reality: The Water Project | SEEPEX | Exact Machine Corp. | Strataflo | SonSet Solutions | Messiah College | Biomet | The Ohio State University | DePuy Synthes (a Johnson & Johnson company) | Battelle Memorial Institute | Force Design | Grace Brethren Churches.
Design Outreach also works with Rotary clubs, such as Rotary Clubs of Delaware, New Albany, Tri-Village, Pataskala, and Sunbury-Galena in a project to make clean water more accessible in Haiti.
Each LifePump is funded by the support of donors. Companies, organizations or individuals can bring clean water to a village in Africa by sponsoring a pump campaign by contacting doutreach.org.
Other human powered pumps such as Afridev Hand Pump, India Mark II handpump, Blue Pump, Vergnet-Hydro 60-2000 Pump, iDE Rope Pump, and SOVEMA Universelle Extra Deep Hand Pump.
Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation
Rural communities that without access to a reliable water source, where the water is too deep for traditional hand pumps.
