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Maker Faire Bay Area 2008
Whoopie Water Storage
Imagine you are a farmer in Myanmar. You irrigate your quarter acre plot using two metal watering cans, carried across your back. It takes you 6 hours just to make 140 round trips between your crops and water source, in 100 degree heat. InfiniCan is a simple $4, raised water storage device that uses 5 ft of energy potential to channel water through a hose and spout. To water your crops, you now carry just the spout. The impact? Your productivity and hence income increase by 25%, and your back is saved from carrying 4,000 lbs of water, each day, everyday.
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Topic(s): Engineering
Tags: Appropriate Technology Participant, water,water storage, myanmar,
About the Maker(s)
Anurupa Rao
We are team Whoopie:Laura, Nishant, Danielle, Goh Kuan and Anu. A group of Stanford grad students with diverse background ranging from engineering, earth sciences to business.We have been working on the agricultural water storage problem in Myanmar for a year now and plan to introduce this product by Dec 2008.
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