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[[Image:RopeandBucketphoto.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Rope and bucket system. Fass Toucouleur, Kaolack Region, Senegal. Photo:
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This device is mainly used with hand-dug wells. A bucket on a rope is lowered into the water. When the bucket hits the water it dips and fills, and is pulled up with the rope. The rope may be held by hand, run through a pulley, or wound on a windlass. Sometimes, animal traction is used in combination with a pulley. Improved systems use a rope through a pulley, and two buckets – one on each end of the rope. For water less than 10 m deep, a windlass with a hose running from the bottom of the bucket to a spout at the side of the well can be used. However, the hygiene of this system is poorer, even if the well is protected.
===Acknowledgements===
* Brikke, François, and Bredero, Maarten. [http://www.washdoc.info/docsearch/title/117705 Linking technology choice with operation and maintenance in the context of community water supply and sanitation: A reference document for planners and project staff] or ([http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/hygiene/om/wsh9241562153/en/ alternative link]). World Health Organization and IRC Water and Sanitation Centre. Geneva, Switzerland 2003.
* [http://answers.practicalaction.org/practicalanswersour-resources/item/product_info.php?products_id=378&attrib=1 human-animal-powered-water-lifting-devices-for-irrigation Human- & Animal-Powered Water Lifters for Irrigation.] Practical Action.