Water Application Devices

WATER LIFTING DEVICES:

IDE-India promotes water lifting devices called the Treadle Pump which are driven by human energy with a combination of lifting and pumping device. It is used in regions with high water table, up to about 28 feet. These are reliable and low on maintenance and lasts for 10 years. Use of water lifting devices replaces the use of diesel pumps thereby saving fuel and reducing carbon emission. Typically, it discharges about 3, 500- 4, 000 litres/ hour water (depending on body weight) and irrigated up to one acre of vegetable farm.

There are three types of water lifting devices- Bamboo and the Surface Treadle Pump, Rope and Washer Pump and Concrete Pump. Different variants of the pump are promoted in different geographies but all work where water table is within 9 meters.

KB BAMBOO TREADLE PUMP

Foot operated reciprocating type positive displacement pump to draw water with open channel water delivery system from shallow tube wells.

KB SURFACE TREADLE PUMP

A foot operated reciprocating type positive displacement pump to draw water with open channel water delivery system from surface water source like dug well, ponds, canal etc.

KB ROPE & WASHER PUMP

A human powered hand operated pump used to lift water from open water source with applied human power in between 40-100 watt.

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farm families were facilitated to adopt water lifting devices. This includes those promoted under the state government- Government of Odisha's subsidy scheme in which 90 percent subsidy is offered on the purchase of the treadle pump for small and marginal farmers.