A simple water pump is helping to improve the lives of poor families in several Asian and African countries.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

The treadle pump is easy to build from bamboo or other wood and two metal cylinders with pistons.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

As a final step there are plans to pump in mud and cement from below through relief wells.

VOA: special.2010.08.07

He's not breathing and we're trying to pump him but he's not -- " "OK,OK.How old is he?"

VOA: special.2009.06.27

They cannot harm themselves because the amount of painkiller in the pump is carefully measured and limited.

VOA: special.2010.05.04

Between thirty and thirty-five women used each system to pump water from the ground or a stream.

VOA: special.2010.01.11

How many hours a day the pump needs to be operated depends on the season and how much water is needed for crops.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

And in sub-Saharan Africa, where only four percent of the land is irrigated, buying a small pump can make a big difference.

VOA: standard.2010.08.09

But,serious differences remain. The U.S.and Britain want other governments to pump more money into their economies as stimulus.

VOA: standard.2009.04.01

It would pump gas from the Caspian Sea region through Turkey,Bulgaria, Romania and Hungary to Austria.

VOA: standard.2009.05.11

Foreign aid paid for the pump that brings up the water and fills this reservoir.

VOA: standard.2009.12.10

As for cost,Dr.Miller says patients with a heart pump spend less time in a hospital and have lower hospital costs than patients with severe heart disease.

VOA: standard.2010.01.27

For a small farmer, replacing a bucket with a pump can lead to cultivating a wider variety of crops and creating work for family and neighbors.

VOA: standard.2010.08.09

He's not breathing, and we're trying to pump him but he's not,he's not.

VOA: standard.2009.06.26

BP says a more complete solution is needed. The next step is to try to pump mud and other materials to the sea floor and block the well.

VOA: standard.2010.05.17

The computer program continuously takes in data from a glucose monitor inserted into a patient's vein and calculates the dose of artificial insulin that needs to be infused through an insulin pump.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

"Our anticipation is that it will be another seven to ten days to complete all of the preparations that we need to exercise this option and then at that point, we'll pump the kill mud and hopefully have this well killed, and well shut off, and the flow shut off."

VOA: standard.2010.05.17