A Brief Review of Water Pumps Category and their Power Source

Abstract

water requirements for human existence. This paper presents a review of different groundwater pump categories and their power sources available from literature. The review covers positive displacement pumps and centrifugal pumps. The power sources for the groundwater pumps reviewed includes manual, electric and fuel sources. The merits and de-merits of the different category of pumps reported by different authors was also highlighted. It was concluded that manually powered borehole water pumps are the cheapest and the most widely acceptable water pumps especially in rural communities of developing countries while the fuel powered pumps is the most expensive power source.