Across Africa, there´s a thirst for clean water: for drinking, cooking, irrigating crops and feeding livestock. Now ingenious new low-tech solutions can provide litres at minimal cost so, with your help, Africans can face a better watered future. For instance: the person-powered treadle pump offers a simple, cheap, low-maintenance solution to drawing water. Water tanks can collect whatever rain there is. Simple drip irrigation conserves water, and increases crops tenfold by delivering water sparingly where it´s needed.

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