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The Pedal Pump (PEP) is being used worldwide by more than 10,000 farming families to irrigate their vegetable gardens.
Increasingly the PEP is
also being used to transport water for households and livestock.
As a result people and animals no longer come into direct contact with
water sources and therefore erosion, contamination and silting being
avoided. Usually the PEP is installed 1-2 metres above ground on a tank.
Hose pipes attached above the water tank transport the water by gravity
to people’s houses or to livestock water troughs in the field. In
combination with the Sodis system ( www.sodis.ch) or chlorinisation (www.wata.ch),
the water can be treated to become safe drinking water. With an energy input of 50 watt drawn from three meters the water yield is approx. 60 liters per minute. Under above conditions double-cropping with good to high yields are achieved.
Rice on 0.5 to 0.7 acres
In situations where the water can be pumped from safe water sources,
lakes or rivers to nearby fields the pedal pump PEP is an ideal means
for assured growth of high-yielding variety-crops on larger acreage than
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