Distributed pumped micro-hydro for transforming energy and water access

水动力技术有限公司（WPT）的专利系列零能耗泵全天候工作，从偏远的溪流和湖泊中提取多余的地表水，使社区能够在自己的可再生能源无法发电时产生自己的水力发电。在22个国家安装了1000套水泵系统后，WPT注意到其系统通常由妇女安装和维护，现在需要正式的支持来研究如何从一开始就包括妇女，甚至在每个社区组装产品。其次，WPT需要支持来开发其系统，以便在干旱限制地表水资源的国家使用。WPT将在乌干达和马拉维捐赠并安装多达30台Papa水泵；每个站点都将把水从很远的地方转移到高处储存，而不需要任何昂贵或污染的化石燃料。在那里，由于能够储存额外的水，社区可以管理自己的水/电选择，通过在夜间需要时放水发电，或在干旱再次发生时保留水供农业使用。该项目将研究不同的社会群体如何参与到为邻近社区组装和供应系统的过程中——因此，该项目不仅将支持技术，还将支持开创性的“商业模式创新”，为以前被排除在外的群体创造就业机会。

Water Powered Technologies Ltd (WPT) range of patented zero energy pumps work 24/7, taking excess surface water from remote streams & lakes to allow a community to generate its own hydro power when their own renewables cannot. After installing +1000 of its pump systems in +22 countries, WPT noticed its systems were often installed and maintained by women, which now needs formal support to study how to include women right from start and even assembling the product in each community. Secondly, WPT needs support to develop its systems to be used in countries where drought limits surface water sources. WPT will donate and install up to 30x Papa pumps each in Uganda and Malawi; each site will move water long distances to elevated storage without needing any expensive or polluting fossil fuel. Where, thanks to the extra water able to stored, the community can manage their own water/ power choices, by releasing water to generate power when needed at night or keeping the water for agricultural use when drought returns. The project will study how different social groups could be involved in assembling and supplying systems to neighbouring communities - so the project will support not just a technical but also a pioneering 'business model innovation' to create jobs in groups prevously excluded.