Terry,
Congratulations to all involved. Sounds like a great project!
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On Fri, 1 Feb 2019 at 12:34, Terence Love <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
>
> I'm pleased to announce that Sankalpa Rural Development Society (SRDS) has
> just won the world Energy Globe Award for Water for their successful
> design
> and implementation of bore-well recharge to provide water to Indian
> farmers.
> The world Energy Globe Award is often considered to be the 'Nobel Prize'
> equivalent in Sustainability.
>
>
>
> Across India, hundreds of thousands of small -scale Indian farmers, their
> families and workers' whole livelihoods are collapsing due to farm
> bore-wells drying up. The consequences for families in this situation can
> be
> dire.: tens of thousands of farmers are committing suicide each year; there
> is mass migration of rural families into poverty in city slum tent
> villages;
> young girl children are picked up on-mass and taken into unsavoury
> positions
> in the cities; and farmers in areas that have high suicide rates are unable
> to marry because no-one wants to marry a suicide risk.
>
>
>
> The successful research and design of the bore-well recharge system being
> rolled out to thousands of farms by Sankalpa Rural Development Society is
> from their CEO Sikandar Meeranaik. Farms with the Sikandar's system
> usually
> have their borewells come back fully within one rainy season. Typically,
> the
> rate of return for the farmer is about 20:1 in the first year, i.e. the
> payback time in income vs cost averages at less than one month, but the
> real benefit is the continuing life and existence of the farmer, their
> family and the families of their workers. Success rate of the technique is
> 100%
>
>
>
> Winning the Energy Globe Award has put Sankalpa Rural Development Society
> and Sikandar Meeranaik on a pathway to global expansion with interest from
> many different countries. Or viewed from the other direction, many
> societies
> with water sourcing problems now have an economical solution that is a an
> effective alternative to dams, long distance water pipelines, water
> carrying and tankering, desalination and other traditional and expensive
> ways of addressing water shortages,
>
>
>
> For more details of SRDS's design and the award, please see
> https://srdsindia.org and
> https://www.energyglobe.info/en/world-awards/energy-globe-2018/waterIndia/
> or contact me direct.
>
>
>
> Shazar Robinson and myself are honoured to be advisers to SRDS.
>
>
>
> AA key question is whatas design researchers can we learn and how can the
> ability to do research into design (and do design) be improved by studying
> the development of this rural water solution design. Sikandar's research
> and design led to an exceptionally cost effective solution, achieved by
> personal drive (Sikandar's) focused on addressing a social problem
> (collapse
> of rural society) rather than any formal design or design thinking process
> directly relating to the design of a solution.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Terence
>
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