Wind-powered water pumps that lift water from great depths, with no electricity and no running costs.
Use cases
Eight examples from practice, from irrigating large areas to keeping fire-fighting ponds topped up.
Irrigating large fields and crops is a serious challenge for farmers in dry summers. Our mechanical wind-powered water pumps reliably lift groundwater from deep wells into your storage systems. Protect your yields even through extreme droughts, completely off-grid, environmentally friendly and without a single euro of extra electricity cost.
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Keeping livestock supplied with drinking water on remote pastures is often laborious and expensive. A wind pump secures the water supply for your herds fully automatically. The robust mechanism lifts fresh water straight from the well into the troughs, with no mains connection and completely independent of the public grid.
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Hobby gardeners, market gardeners and orchard owners are feeling the dry summer months more and more. Put the power of the wind to work for healthy plant growth. Our wind pumps are an environmentally friendly way to fill collection tanks and irrigation systems at low cost. Save precious drinking water and cut your running costs for good.
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In pond management, a steady water level and a dependable oxygen supply decide whether the season is a success. Our wind-powered water pumps keep sensitive ecosystems running off-grid. They provide continuous water circulation and keep rearing basins or reservoirs filled. Protect your fish stock effectively against the pond turning.
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Mountain huts, hunting grounds, allotment sites or off-grid projects: wherever there is no mains supply, getting at water is extremely difficult. A mechanical wind pump is the perfect stand-alone solution for autonomous regions. It needs next to no maintenance and delivers dependable service water from your own well, with no fuel bills and no expensive solar batteries.
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Reliable fire-water reserves are a legal requirement for businesses and local authorities alike. A wind pump is a crisis-proof way to fill fire-fighting ponds and hold their water level. The pump keeps working with absolute reliability even during a power cut, so there is always enough water when it really matters.
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A wind pump tower draws every eye and makes a wonderfully nostalgic landmark for your business. Use its historic look as a striking advertising surface beside roads, on company grounds or in leisure parks. Combine traditional design with modern attention to draw customers in and give your brand a presence that lasts.
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Whether you are filling a historic castle moat or irrigating golf courses, polo fields and racecourses, our wind pumps look after demanding turf and heritage sites entirely off-grid. Keep soil moisture right for play and preserve the charm of listed monuments, all without a single unit of expensive mains electricity.
More on sport & heritageSpecial case or standard job: we assess your site and find the right wind pump solution for your needs, free of charge and with no obligation.
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About us
We have been building wind-powered water pumps for decades. We help you find and size the right wind pump for your needs, with real quality and respect for the environment.
Windwasserpumpe stands for high-quality, environmentally friendly engineering. Our pumps generate clean energy from the power of the wind alone and bring fresh water to animals, plants and crops, wherever the wind blows.
Benefits
Simple, robust engineering that works for you day after day, with no electricity bill and minimal impact on the environment.
Our green and yellow wind pumps run entirely off-grid on the pure power of the wind. They need neither an expensive mains connection nor polluting diesel fuel. Draw on a clean, unlimited and thoroughly crisis-proof source of energy straight from nature for your water supply.
No electricity bill, no grid charges and no costly fuel for generators. Once the system is installed, the wind does the entire pumping job for you, completely free of charge. Make yourself independent of unpredictable energy prices and future price rises for good.
The long-lasting, purely mechanical design manages entirely without delicate electronics, circuit boards or digital sensors. One short check-and-grease appointment a year is all it takes to keep the system efficient, reliable and ready for work for decades.
Maximum mechanical safety in any weather: if the wind gets too strong, the automatic storm protection turns the wheel out of the wind by itself and slows it down. An additional, sturdy hand brake at the foot of the tower gives you absolute safety during maintenance work.
Safeguard your farm income and irrigate large arable areas, speciality crops or orchards straight from deep wells or storage tanks. Our system reliably protects your crops from ruinous harvest losses, even through the extreme droughts that can last for weeks in summer.
Guarantee your livestock fresh, cool drinking water around the clock, even on the most remote pastures and paddocks. The fully automatic system fills the troughs independently of the public grid and saves you the daily chore of hauling water barrels out by tractor.
Keep the water level and the vital oxygen content in your fish ponds and rearing basins constant. Continuous mechanical circulation protects sensitive ecosystems and aquaculture from the pond turning and prevents dense mats of algae from forming.
An authentic wind pump tower in traditional industrial design is a magnet for passers-by. Use that lively, nostalgic backdrop as an unmistakable advertising surface for your company logo. A likeable, green landmark that earns your business maximum attention in the region.
Tell us about your water requirements and we will propose the right, crisis-proof wind-powered solution.
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Process
With our digital guide you can plan your off-grid water supply comfortably from home. You gather the data, we deliver a perfectly sized system.
Work out your daily water requirement and take a look at your water source. Whether it is an existing borehole, an open shaft well or a cistern: note down the exact depth and the diameter of the pipe. You simply enter these figures in our online form.
You do not need an expensive instrument. Just watch the trees at your site and judge the wind force yourself: are the leaves rustling and the thin twigs moving? Perfect. Our wind pumps start turning very easily, from wind force 3 on the official scale (a gentle breeze, approx. 4 m/s). We also cross-check your GPS coordinates against meteorological databases.
Which wind-powered water pump suits you depends precisely on your daily water requirement and your individual delivery head. In the detailed planning we of course adapt the system (tower height or wheel diameter, for example) flexibly to your personal needs and the conditions on site.
Official approval should be settled before construction starts. Different rules apply depending on the federal state, the location (inside or outside a built-up area) and the overall height of the tower. Smaller towers up to 10 or 15 metres are often exempt from approval or need only a simplified building permit. We supply the technical documents and data sheets you need for this.
Once you have placed a binding order and your payment has arrived, your wind pump is professionally packed and sent on its way. We will of course let you know the exact delivery date well in advance. One thing to keep in mind: please make sure suitable machinery (e.g. a tractor with a front loader, a wheel loader or a forklift) is on your site to unload the delivery.
After you order, we send you a precise and easy-to-follow foundation and reinforcement plan. You can either pour the concrete foundation yourself or simply hand the plan to a local building contractor near you.
Assembling the wind-powered water pump follows a logical sequence: you simply put the sturdy system together piece by piece using our detailed instructions. With basic technical understanding and some practical experience in metalwork, the build is perfectly manageable. Depending on the model and the height of the tower, a local crane or front loader makes raising the heavy components considerably easier, faster and safer.
Technology
A mechanical wind pump, built without compromise to lift water on pure natural power alone, completely unmoved by power cuts, blackouts or diesel prices.
As soon as the wind reaches the minimum speed, the turning western windmill sets the shaft in motion. A solid crank drive and a robust connecting rod translate the rotation of the wheel directly and highly efficiently into a vertical up-and-down stroke.
The rotor aligns itself automatically and precisely with the current wind direction by means of the heavy tail vane. The continuous pump rod inside the lattice tower drives the piston pump sitting deep in the well. It draws in the groundwater and pushes it mechanically up a sturdy steel pipe to the surface, without a single electronic component or any complicated gearing.
The highly efficient wheel starts turning automatically at wind force 3 (a gentle breeze) and begins lifting water mechanically straight away.
The purely mechanical pump is positioned perfectly inside the well casing. Integrated, long-life non-return valves maintain constant water pressure.
In heavy summer storms the system protects itself by turning out of the wind. An additional mechanical hand brake at the foot of the tower secures the installation during maintenance work.
The basic structure is made of solid, weatherproof quality steel built to last for decades. For maximum corrosion protection we also offer the complete installation in a hot-dip galvanised version.
Models
Five perfectly matched performance classes: from a compact system for house and garden to a large industrial installation. Wheel diameter and tower height grow precisely in step with your delivery head and your water requirement.
Perfectly sized for private kitchen gardens, vegetable beds, small fish ponds and off-grid holiday cabins with normal daily consumption.
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The ideal system for medium-sized farms, speciality crops, smaller paddocks and keeping the water levels of historic sites where they should be.
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The versatile, most-chosen professional solution for continuous crop irrigation, large herds on outlying pastures and statutory fire-fighting ponds.
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Designed for demanding boreholes with a high delivery head and for the very large daily flow rates found in professional fish farming or agriculture.
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Our largest and sturdiest wind-powered water pump for peak industrial, municipal and intensive agricultural demand, as well as extensive sports grounds such as golf courses.
Request data sheet & priceSizing a wind pump correctly is a matter of millimetres and mathematics. Do not leave your success to chance: using your water requirement and your well depth, we work out the installation that is physically perfect for your site.
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Gallery
From pre-assembly on the ground to lifting the wheel into place with a crane: every project told in pictures.
Press & official records
Cities, associations and conservation projects across Europe rely on our wind-powered water pumps. Here you will find official reports and records about our reference installations.
Tell us about your water requirements and we will advise you on the right wind pump, free of charge and with no obligation.
FAQ
Answers to the questions we are asked most often about wind-powered water pumps.
Very little. A single service per year is entirely enough to keep the system efficient and reliable for the long term. We recommend one simple visual check of the mechanical parts each year, plus greasing the grease nipples on the wind wheel itself with an ordinary grease gun. For your own safety, lock the wheel firmly with the hand brake before you climb the tower.
The wind-powered water pump lifts water economically from great depths, officially down to 90 metres, and thanks to integrated mechanical non-return valves it carries the water to considerable heights without any loss. The exact flow rate is calculated precisely during the planning phase to match your local well depth and your daily water requirement.
There are none. The pump runs purely on the free power of the wind, entirely without electricity and without diesel. Once the system has been installed, pumping your water costs you exactly €0.00 in ongoing energy costs, decade after decade.
Our wind-powered water pumps are extremely versatile and the perfect electricity-free solution for:
The system becomes active from around 4 m/s, which corresponds to wind force 3 (a gentle breeze). A simple guide without a measuring device: if the leaves rustle and thin twigs move at your site, there is already enough wind for the pump to turn the rotation of the wheel into water lift.
Yes. Wind-powered water pumps can be installed and operated without any problem in regions with hard winters. With the right, simple precautions, frozen pipes are reliably avoided. The decisive measure is a frost-proof water transfer inside the well shaft, below the local frost line. Because the mechanical piston pump sits deep in the well casing, the entire system stays fully operational, ice-free and completely dependable even in extreme sub-zero temperatures.
Contact
Tell us about your water requirements: we will propose the right wind-powered solution and, if you wish, arrange a site visit.
