Namsena.pdf (617.9 kB)
Download filePeople's pump in Lao PDR
conference contribution
posted on 2018-02-12, 15:10 authored by Keooudum Namsena, Bounmy PhanchantaraThe People’s Pump is a traditional handpump that has been used for several years by rural villagers in Lao PDR. This
handpump can be manufactured with local materials and is easy to maintain. The pump is gaining recognition within
the sector and is excepted to be included within the water supply informed choice options for demand assessment in Lao
PDR. This paper briefly reveals the story of the People’s Pump – a story of how a people-centred technology can influence
provision of affordable water supplies to rural communities.
History
School
- Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
Research Unit
- Water, Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC)
Published in
WEDC ConferenceCitation
NAMSENA, K. and PHANCHANTARA, B., 2004. People's pump in Lao PDR. IN: Godfrey, S. (ed). People-centred approaches to water and environmental sanitation: Proceedings of the 30th WEDC International Conference, Vientiane, Laos, 25-29 October 2004, pp. 602-605.Publisher
© WEDC, Loughborough UniversityVersion
- VoR (Version of Record)
Publisher statement
This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Publication date
2004Notes
This is a conference paper.Other identifier
WEDC_ID:13370Language
- en
