SOLAR WATER PUMP - DIJIBOUTI, EAST AFRICA

Bright Light Solar supplied and installed Solar Powered Water pumps to 25 villages in Djibouti, East Africa.

This was a bespoke solution, that has enabled the villages in Dijibouti to have clean, fresh water for the first time.

As well as designing the pumping system, Bright Light Solar installed the project and provided training so that the villagers can maintain it themselves.

As Ian Tansley our Technical Director explains

“…many earlier water-pumping
projects …relied on complicated,
diesel-run generators. If diesel
became too expensive, or was
unavailable, the pumping project
failed…The solar-powered system
comes with a 25-year guarantee,
and is also extremely easy to
maintain, thus ….women and
children will no longer spend hours
each day fetching and carrying
water…. Carrying such heavy loads
caused back problems, and the
water collected from available
sources was contaminated, and
waterborne diseases were rampant.”