Press Room covering everything to do with our improved RAM Pump

National Trust Blackdown Hills Installation of a Papa Pump April 2009With the reintroduction of grazing cattle on Black Down last spring, there was a needfor a reliable supply of fresh drinkingwater, and herein lay a problem. Click here to see the pdf....and read more about how the use of a Papa Pump helps water livestock on the South Downs National... read more

Papa Pump improves Tanzanian Agricultural Institute Water System The Arusha Times, 12 July 2008Young Farmers Club (YCF) of Devon in the United Kingdom (UK) has provided two Papa Pumps to the Livestock Training Institute (LITI) Tengeru. Tanzania. Apart from the donation of pumps, YCF has also provided a total sum of GB£2000 to improve the water supply system at LITI Tengeru, said YCF... read more

Keeps stream banks in good shape The Farmer, Nov 2003A pump that needs no external power is helping cut watercourse bank erosion in Devon. Pumps that use the energy of a stream or river to lift a small proportion of that flow to drinking troughs or a storage tank are helping to reduce trampling of river and stream banks... read more

University of Aberdeen. Report on Papa Pump for livestock watering January 20011) Reports can be downloaded from the Scotland and Northern Ireland Forum for Environmental Research; http://www.sniffer.org.uk/Default.aspx; search for report; OFFSTREAM WATER PROVISION FOR LIVESTOCK 2) Hard copies of this report are available from the Foundation, price £15.00, less 20% to FWR members; Follow this link; http://www.fwr.org/ and search for report; SR(02)01F EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This is... read more

Rejuvenating 200 year old 'powerless' pump technology World Pumps, Dec 1999The hydraulic ram pump isn't exactly the sort of technology that one could call new. In fact the ram pump is a device that dates back over 200 years to the era of the Montgolfier brothers, famous for their ballooning escapades. Since then, developments in hydraulic ram pumps have been... read more

Papa Water Powered Pumps 1999 Press Release The technology of water powered pumps has changed little in the past one hundred years. In that time many good companies have come to the market with reliable products that have served the agricultural and horticultural and irrigation markets for many years. PAPA (pressure amplified pump automation) water powered pumps... read more

Pump up the volume The Guardian, 6 Nov 1997Cornish inventor Philip Selwyn has developed a device that can harness energy from moving water and increase its pressure without an external power source. The design is currently being used to pump water from streams up to drinking troughs hundreds of feet above, but it could one day be used... read more

It's So Simple Eureka, Jan 1997Rubber ring is designed to amplify pressure.Problem; Many devices have been developed down the years to obtain higher hydraulic pressure fluid flow. In oil hydraulics, the usual solution is to have low pressure oil acting on one side of a large diameter piston, connecting to a smaller diameter piston used... read more

REGEN SW Case study on PAPA Pump Click HERE for the case study by REGEN SW on PAPA Pump read more

Water power alone A west country company called Papa Ltd offers a unique type of pump which does not require any power source to operate. Instead the pump relies on a natural head of water. The manufacturer claims that the Papa pump will deliver water to a level 30 times the head of... read more

Catchment Basin Support for UK Farmers Click here for more information about potential support in your areas for RAM pumps; http://severnriverstrust.com/category/events/ If you are in the UK but this is not your area- check with your local Farming Advisory Group for other areas for support. Many countries are trying to support the lowering of carbon and... read more