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Association
The pedal pump
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W3W fights against Hunger
and Poverty in this world. It can achieve its objective
thanks to a significant increase of small and marginal
farmers’ agricultural productivity. This can be achieved
thanks to an efficient and thrifty management of the
natural resources of water and soil with the help of
capital-saving and innovative irrigation technologies as
well as for the creation of productive employment.
Tiny village workshops manufacture pumps for
small-scale irrigation and sustainable
management of land by poor small-farmer families
according to the principle of help for self-help.
Appropriate technologies can easily be applied
by local workshops with locally available
materials. The manufactured pedal pumps PEP
must be rustfree, low-cost and easy to be
maintained and repaired in the field by the
farmers themselves.
With this vision
in mind 3 engineers and a development expert
started the search and investigation into a new
small-scale irrigation technology. They managed
to develop a rust-free and foot-driven Pedal
Pump PEP made from cement, plastic cylinders and
locally manufactured pistons. With their PEP
they won a competition in their municipality
near Lucerne with which they initiated their
first project in India!
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