PUMP IT UP

Water is one of the essentials of life, but for the five million Canadians who rely on private water systems, this also means dependency on an electrical grid that seems to be getting less and less reliable. When weather events and grid overload cause power failures in rural areas, it means no water for drinking, cooking, washing or toilets, but a new breed of hand pump is eliminating this vulnerability. The best of these are made to be installed alongside existing electrical pumps already in a well. If you’re interested in disaster-proofing your private water supply, today’s compact deep well hand pumps are a game changer you need to know about .

Water doesn’t like to be pumped, and the deeper the water is below the surface of the ground, the more reluctant it is to be drawn upward. In fact, water absolutely refuses to be pumped by suction more than seven vertical metres (22 feet) upward. If you