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pump river water contraption?

hollyhocks
16 years ago

Hey does anyone have any ideas on how to get river water for my garden w/o using electricity or gas? The river is about 150 yards from my new proposed garden & of course down hill. I wanted to go "green" and figure out a way to get it to my garden by making some sort of gravity, human powered (bicycle type) or dog powered contraption. How did the Egyptians, Incas or Mayans irrigate way back when (up hill)? It has to be portable or non-permanent.

thanks!

Hollyhocks

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