During my recent long motorcycle ride to Himachal Pradesh, Ladakh, Jammu & Kashmir, and Punjab, I discovered something unique at Gurdwara Pathar Sahib, near Leh. It was a water dispenser at the langar (free kitchen) hall. As I finished lunch, while seated beside other devotees on a carpet spread on the floor of the langar hall, a volunteer pushing a wheeled water dispenser came into view.
It comprised a large metal cylinder on wheels containing water, being pushed using a handle on top that resembled a bicycle's handle. He wheeled it next to the steel tumbler that lay on the floor next to the steel plate I was using to have lunch. When the small water outlet was directly over the tumbler, he pressed what looked like a brake lever on the bicycle handle on the contraption. As soon as he did that, water gushed from the outlet into the tumbler. As soon as it filled up, he released the lever, pulled the dispenser back a little and moved on to fill the next person's tumbler similarly. It was undoubtedly a step up from the garden watering cans I have seen used for the same purpose at other Gurdwaras.
A quick internet search later revealed that similar devices are used in several other Gurdwaras, and some people have filmed them in use and posted videos on social media.
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