4 brothers in Western Kenya have begun solving water problems by creating waterpump windmills out of old bicycle parts and roofing materials. They have created 30 of them and are making good money doing it. This is another story of Africans solving their own problems using local materials:
The four Ututu brothers had inherited a large area of fertile farmland, which had been terraced by their father in the late 1950s. Despite this resource, they were experiencing problems because they lacked water both for drinking (meaning wasted time, fetching water from 15 km away in the dry season) and for irrigation (thus low yields from the meagre rainfall).
(Read the whole story at Farming Solutions)
(via Timbuktu Chronicles)
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pickups by major news outlets out of all the blogs that I write. More than 500 people pull the blog feed, and it has shown up on very large sites ranging from MAKE:magazine to BoingBoing to Wired. Recent posts: Solar Power in Madagascar (Video) Creating Windmills from Old Bicycle Parts and Roofing Materials African Children’s Toys: Ingenuity Starts at a Young Age Summary I want to thank everyone who links to, comments and contributes to all of these web sites. If you see a great example of African ingenuity, have news to share, or come across
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to make the most of their own imaginative design capability to solve local problems in the most relevant way. We should therefore recognize and encourage initiative where it occurs, and support such creativity with “scientific” knowledge. Via: Afrigadget and Farming Solutions
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Email: absATabsakDOTcom The two main websites of this combined “Me Tech” news feed are Afrigadget and the Malawi Windmill Blog. AfriGadget
Another version is from MAKE magazine. MAKE: Blog: Bicycle blenders There’s a Starbucks in Washington that has a bicycle powered blender
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[IMG Kenyan windmill with bicycle parts and roofing material]4 brothers in Western Kenya have begun solving water problems by creating waterpump windmills out of old bicycle parts and roofing materials. They have created 30 of them and are making good money doing it. This is another story of Africans solving
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