How to Hand Pump Water From a Well
Water wells have been around for a remarkably long time, and have served as essential private water sources for countless individuals and families across the world. The technology surrounding well construction and development is continuously evolving, resulting in wells that can be deeper, smaller, and more affordable than ever before. Additionally, advancements in pumping technology have vastly improved the methods used for extracting water from these wells, making the process easy and efficient. Most modern wells typically utilize an electric well pump to draw groundwater up to the surface and often serve to pressurize a house or other building, ensuring access to clean and safe water whenever it is needed.
Electric well pumps are a huge advancement in technology and they are here to stay. With that being said, these electric pumps have a flaw. They are dependent on electricity. The pumps that deliver life-sustaining clean groundwater are fully dependent on available electricity. Electricity is widely available but the question has to be asked: what would happen if it is no longer available?
Whether that be a simple winter storm that knocks out a few power lines, a failure to our electrical infrastructure, or even an attack on the grid, you never really know what could happen to leave you without electricity to power your electric well pump. And no electricity = no clean groundwater; or at least for those without a back up.
To protect your most important resource (your clean water) it is important to have backups and the best back up for accessing your well water is a well hand pump.
Well Hand Pumps
Hand pumps have been around far longer than electric pumps. They are fully mechanical and utilize some good old elbow grease to run them. By moving the handle up and down the pump works to draw water into itself and pumps it to the surface. There are many different types of hand pumps but they all accomplish the basic goal of manually bringing water to the surface without the need of electricity.
For many in very remote locations who don’t have access to electricity hand pumps might be their only way to get clean groundwater. For these people, it is incredibly important to invest in an extremely durable and long-lasting hand pump that will take the wear and tear of daily usage.
For the rest of the population on wells, hand pumps can serve as a backup system to get their water in an emergency should the electric well pump no longer work. They are like a spare tire in your car, should you ever need it, it is there to serve you in an unforeseen emergency. Most hand pumps that are used as backups are installed in the current well in tandem with the electric pump. Somewhat like an additional straw in a cup of water that is your well. That is how the Epp Well Solutions Emergency Hand Pump Kits work.
Emergency Hand Pump Kits
Emergency Hand Pump Kits are an easy-to-use DIY hand pump kits that allow you to install an emergency hand pump in your well at an affordable cost. The kit comes with a piston, couplers, a handle, an instruction manual, and a few other miscellaneous fittings to install. Then PVC pipe is either bought locally or purchased along with the kit. The PVC pipe is used to extend the piston so that the piston can be submerged under the water in the well. Then the pipe is affixed to the cap of the well to hold everything in place. The handle is attached and then the pumping can begin. As the pipe is pumped up and down, water is being sucked into the piston from the well and then pushed up to the surface.
Now whenever you lose power or your electric well pump fails you have an extra manual way to access your groundwater. No more fear of not having clean drinking water!
These hand pump kits are light and can reach any depth up to 150 feet deep for those deeper wells. They are also entirely manufactured in the USA and ship free across the lower 48 states.
Don’t get caught in an emergency without any way to survive get your clean water. Get your emergency well hand pump kit today.
