Private water management goes solar in Cambodia

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Private water management goes solar in Cambodia

Floods and droughts are two leading causes of agricultural losses in Cambodia, where farmers have begun using solar power to manage their water supply and counter the impact of increasingly erratic weather patterns.

In the disaster-prone Bosleav (also known as Bos Leav)commune in Kratie Province - some 480km northeast of the capital, Phnom Penh - the country's first solar-powered water pumping station was recently completed. The solar-powered pumps push water into storage tanks and then gravity takes over to distribute the water to households, said Dara R.M. Ung, a project advisor at the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF).

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