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The Power of a Radically Affordable Irrigation Pump
Posted by Sandra Postel of National Geographic's Freshwater Initiative in Water Currents on April 18, 2012
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One of the more transformative technologies ever developed for the world’s poor farmers is a water-lifting device called a treadle pump. It looks and operates much like a Stairmaster exercise machine that you’d find in a gym. But the dollar-a-day farmers who use these devices are not trying to lose pounds; they’re trying to…
