{"id":145427,"date":"2021-11-08T13:10:39","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T10:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.enerjigazetesi.ist\/?p=145427"},"modified":"2021-11-08T13:39:37","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T10:39:37","slug":"gunes-enerjili-su-pompalari-susuz-kenya-ciftliklerine-hayat-veriyor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.enerjigazetesi.ist\/en\/gunes-enerjili-su-pompalari-susuz-kenya-ciftliklerine-hayat-veriyor\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar Water Pumps Quench Thirsty Kenyan Farms"},"content":{"rendered":"

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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 age would soon make it impossible to carry on his labour-intensive job.<\/h2>\n

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The nearest river only flows during the two rainy seasons<\/strong> of the year, so the community has built sand dams – barriers across the river that trap sand, which in turn captures and holds water-to store river<\/strong> water to use when they need it.<\/p>\n

In February<\/strong>, the World Bank<\/strong> and the Makueni County government<\/strong> worked with farmers to install a 32-cell solar<\/strong> unit in Mauyu\u2019s village, one of more than a dozen off-grid solar projects<\/strong> the World Bank has helped set up around Kenya.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A spokesperson for the World Bank<\/strong> directed interview requests to the Makueni government<\/strong>, which did not respond to several requests<\/strong> for comment.<\/p>\n

Under the $150 million project<\/strong>, solar pumps are provided free of charge<\/strong>, with maintenance costs<\/strong> covered by users paying a small fee for the water they collect.<\/p>\n

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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 age would soon make it impossible to carry on his labour-intensive job. The nearest river only flows during the two rainy seasons of the year, so the community […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":145433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[51,53,49],"tags":[6966,98295,23416,7781,11909,98296,98300,98301,98297,42845,98299,98298,15104],"views":362,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enerjigazetesi.ist\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145427"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enerjigazetesi.ist\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enerjigazetesi.ist\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enerjigazetesi.ist\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enerjigazetesi.ist\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145427"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.enerjigazetesi.ist\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145438,"href":"https:\/\/www.enerjigazetesi.ist\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145427\/revisions\/145438"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enerjigazetesi.ist\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enerjigazetesi.ist\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enerjigazetesi.ist\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enerjigazetesi.ist\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}