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

在亚洲和非洲的几个国家里，简式水泵对提高那里贫困家庭的生活水平起着很大的作用。

The treadle pump is based on a design developed in the nineteen seventies by Norwegian engineer Gunnar Barnes.

这种踏板式水泵的设计是基于十九世纪七十年代的 挪威文的工程师 Gunnar Barnes 而发展而来的。

It can be made locally.

它的制作可以就地取材。

A group based in the United States, IDE, International Development Enterprises, has created programs in different countries.

位于美国的国际发展企业已经在不同的国家发展了踏板式水泵项目。

The program in India won an Ashden Award in two thousand six for using local sources of energy to improve quality of life.

由于该项目能采用当地的能源来提高生活质量，所以它于 2006 年在印度获的了 阿什登奖。

Last year the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation awarded IDE twenty-seven million dollars.

去年， 比尔和梅林达盖茨基金奖励 27000000 美元给国际发展企业。

The money is to be used to expand small irrigation projects to the other half of India's twenty-eight states.

这些钱是用于扩大印度其他 28 省的一些小的灌溉设施的。

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

这种踏板式水泵可以轻松用竹子获其他木头和两个带活塞的汽缸做成。