Editing Windpump (section)

==Worldwide use==
[[File:Wicken Fen Windpump.jpg|thumb|A working wooden windpump on [[The Fens]] in [[Cambridgeshire]], UK]]
The [[Netherlands]] is well known for its windmills. Most of these iconic structures situated along the edge of [[polders]] are actually windpumps, designed to drain the land. These are particularly important as much of the country lies below [[sea level]].

In the UK, the term ''windpump'' is rarely used, and they are better known as ''drainage windmills''. Many of these were built in [[The Broads]] and [[The Fens]] of [[East Anglia]] for the draining of land, but most of them have since been replaced by [[diesel fuel|diesel]] or electric powered pumps.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K-JRAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA106|page=106|title=The Norfolk Broads: A Landscape History|last=Williamson|first=Tom|publisher=Manchester University Press|year=1997|isbn=9780719048005}}</ref> Many of the original windmills still stand in a derelict state although some have been restored.{{citation needed|date=July 2022}}

Windpumps are used extensively in [[Southern Africa]], Australia, and on farms and ranches in the central plains and Southwest of the United States. In South Africa and Namibia thousands of windpumps are still operating. These are mostly used to provide water for human use as well as drinking water for large sheep stocks.

[[Kenya]] has also benefited from the African development of windpump technologies. At the end of the 1970s, the UK [[NGO]] [[Intermediate Technology Development Group]] provided engineering support to the Kenyan company Bobs Harries Engineering Ltd for the development of the Kijito windpumps. Bobs Harries Engineering Ltd is still manufacturing the Kijito windpumps, and more than 300 of them are operating in the whole of [[East Africa]].{{citation needed|date=August 2021}}

In many parts of the world, a [[rope pump]] is being used in conjunction with wind turbines. This easy-to- construct pump works by pulling a knotted rope through a pipe (usually a simple PVC pipe) causing the water to be pulled up into the pipe. This type of pump has become common in [[Nicaragua]] and other places.{{citation needed|date=August 2021}}