Solar PV pumps help communities have access to water in remote off-grid areas. In a small village in Ethiopia, women and girls used to walk for miles to collect water from faraway ponds and rivers.

Solar-powered water pumps can provide a sustainable solution to the global water crisis by tapping into vast groundwater resources. While solar pumps offer significant benefits, their widespread use ...

Rural homes play by different rules. Here's what it really takes, in solar and battery terms, to keep your home's water ...

Solar water pumps are a feasible alternative to water pumps powered by diesel generators or conventional power, but their economical feasibility is strictly dependent on a proper design and size. With ...

Amina Mohamed Abdi: “We drink it, we cook with it, it is essential. Life means having water.” Petterik Wiggers / Oxfam New solar panels, pipes, and taps deliver water to a town surviving long-term ...

On his six-acre farm in Jhansi in Uttar Pradesh, Sanjeev Kumar, a 42-year-old farmer, beams with quiet pride as he points to the glinting blue solar panels powering his irrigation pump. Installed two ...

Utilizing a large stock tank will offer more backup water-storage capacity to carry your livestock through multiple days of limited pumping due to cloudy weather. Utilize solar-powered pumps for ...

A hot-water heat pump can be the cheapest way to heat water at your home or business. When matched with rooftop solar photo-voltaic (PV) electricity generation, hot-water heat pumps save even more.

Demand for solar power is rapidly heating up (see “New Solar Technologies Fueled by Hot Markets”). But constructing and deploying large photovoltaic panels to generate electricity remains expensive.

MWITHINI, Kenya, Oct 19 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Even at 80 years old, Raphael Mauyu, a dairy farmer from southeast Kenya, has no plans to retire. But not long ago, he worried that his advancing ...

The world’s food supply must double by the year 2050 to meet the demands of a growing population, according to a report from the United Nations. And as pressure mounts to find new crop land to support ...