Small-Scale Hydro

My only claim to fame in this area is having built a working hydraulic ram pump to UK plans for use in Africa.

Made almost entirely out of off the shelf pipe fittings this would be ideal for water supply in Nicaragua.

If anyone has a stream with about 10 foot fall on their property and wants to build the beast then download the plans here(1Mb PDF)

The design life of the pump is tens of years, cost me about 50 USD in bits.