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Solar powered water pumps up incomes for Nepal's quake-hit farmers
2018-03-12
A solar water powered pump installed in October 2017 powers a pump bringing up 40,000 litres of water per day to the remote village of Shikharpur in Nepal, 7 February 2018. Thomson Reuters Foundation Standing in golden mustard fields, a huge solar panel powers the p...
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The solar power system saved my life
2018-01-02
Part of solar power’s allure is the ease with which one can get electricity out of ‘simple’ hardware in very complex moments. In southeast Asia, Africa, the Middle East and the Caribbean we’re seeing solar power – right now – offering huge services to people in trying times. I...
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Solar Irrigation Pump To Boost Farming
2017-12-12
A solar-powered irrigation pump has been launched to help smallholder farmers in the country to undertake an all-year-round agriculture to ensure food security as well as increase their incomes. The Solar Irrigation Pump is a robust but portable facility de...
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New policy of solar powered pumps being formulated
2017-11-03
NEW DELHI, The government is in the process of formulating a new scheme for solar pumps to promote standalone solar off-grid pumps with an objective of replacing existing diesel pump sets. According to an official statement after the meeting of Consultative...
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Solar poweredd water pump help pump well water to 80 homes in Samail
2017-10-19
For the first time in the sultanate, solar energy is being harnessed to pump water from a well that will supply water to 80 homes in Samail in Dakhliyah governorate. Eng Abdullah bin Hamoud al Husseini, head of the operation department at the Public Authority for Electricity and Water ...
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Solar power and innovation the way to save the Amazon rainforests
2017-10-13
Ituxi Extractive Reserve, Brazil — In the darkest reaches of Brazil’s Amazon, solar panels are bringing light — and could help save the rainforest. Aurelio Souza is working to install solar panels in villages along the remote Purus and Ituxi rivers in the western Amazon...
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Ranson Elementary set up Solar Water Pumo to plants a garden
2017-09-29
Kindergarten students at Ranson Elementary School planted vegetables in a garden on school property with a little help from Engineers Without Borders co-founder Roger Either and his“Lil Sprout” solar water pump. “We’re going to plant lettuce. On Monda...
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Farmers become solar power water pump for irrigation.
2017-08-31
International Water Management Institute(IWMI) managed to fund a pilot project with a view to promote the use of solar power for irrigation purposes. The project which was initiated in Dhundi village in Anand district some two years ago, with a team of six farmer...
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Solar powered water pumps to save 100 water bodies in forests
2017-07-11
A solar water pump installed in the Nagarahole tiger reserve G Veeresh 100 water holes will be refilled through solar water pumps About 100 watering holes and lakes in forests across the state will be refilled through the use of solar water pumps t...
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Over 12,000 solar pumps distributed to farmers in C'garh
2017-06-23
During the meeting, the chief minister instructed the officials to focus more in 85 tribal-dominated development blocks for the distribution of the solar energy-based irrigation pumps, the official said "About 12,161 solar powered pumps had been provided to the farmers till now...
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Uganda Starts Up First Solar Power Plant in Bid to Tap Renewables
2017-06-15
In this photo taken June 30, 2016, a Ugandan worker levels the ground at a solar plant in Soroti about 300 kilometers east of Uganda capital Kampala. Uganda on Monday started up its first grid-connected, 10 megawatt solar power plant as the east African country moves to tap i...
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World’s First Solar-Powered Refugee Camp Opens in Jordan
2017-06-09
Syrian refugees are now benefiting from the opening of a new solar power plant at Jordan’s Azraq refugee camp Energy from sunlight is now providing electricity to Syrian refugees at a camp in Jordan. The Azraq camp is the first in the world to completely o...
