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== Costs ==
* US$ 2030-120 150 depending on modeland cost of materials and labour.
== Applying conditions ==
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<li><b>Numbers:</b> 5070,000 in Nicaragua, 20,000 in Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Ghana, Senegal, Tanzania, Zambia, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, TanazniaCambodia, SenegalIndia, Cambodiaand Vietnam.</li>
<li><b>Range of depth:</b> 1-35 meter (60 m with two cranks).</li>
<li><b>Application</b> Communal wells, houshold, irrigation, cattle watering. </li><li><b>Cost of introduction:</b> US$ 10,000-2030,000 per project, including 20 pumps, engineering and hands-on training. </li> <li><b>Rural water programme:</b> US$ 60150,000-100200,000 per project, including 1,000 pumps, start up of production workshop facility and hands-on training.</li>
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== Rope pump building construction manual ==
PRACTICA foundation and the Technical Training Programme of the ETC Foundation (TTP/ETC) have put together a really [http://www.greenocean.org/akvo/PRACTICA_180306_Rope_pump_manual_Ethiopia_March_2006_complete.pdf excellent manual on how to build rope pumps] (PDF, 2.5 Mbyte). It is an 86 page long document with detailed instructions.
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