While we’re constantly on the lookout here for simple ways to do chores without electricity, sometimes slick solutions surface quite by accident. Using a hand water pump as an air compressor to pump ...

Solar energy-powered hand pumps have been launched by a city-based company to help villagers draw water from wells without manually operating them. The system will be subsidised by the Union ...

TOI file photo for representation. DEHRADUN: Going environmental friendly, Uttarakhand Peyjal Nigam has decided to motorize the hand pumps in the state using solar energy. Around 200 hand pumps are ...