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How one man, Marco Cremona, is trying to make water sexy in Malta.
(Source: youtube.com)
We need more people thinking about business models and development. Instead of always wanting to invent the next technology breakthrough, we have to focus on the business models and systems to use these breakthroughs in real life. So much is possible from a technical point of view, but usually the business model to bring it to scale is not there. Let’s not waist our time finding new solutions, but take the current ones, experiment to improve, and get it to scale!
The concept of M.Paani is fascinating because it doesn’t speak about technology hardware etc. but only about a scalable business model. And yes this has to be tested and checked etc. but these kind of innovations are the ones we need!
(Source: mpaani.com)
This level of failure represents a waste of between $1.2 billion and $1.5 billion in investments in 20 years,
- From perhaps the biggest study ever carried out in 21 African countries to investigate water pumps in Africa. It found that 36 percent of pumps were not working. Tina Rossenberg (writer at the New York Times Fixes blog) investigates an approach to make sure the water pumps keep working and the model is sustainable.
Bringing back the glaciers of Peru?
This article and video show a possible method to bring back the glaciers of Peru. Because of global warming these glaciers started to disappear threatening a lot of cities and communities depending on the glaciers as a water source.
Now Eduardo Gold is running an experiment to bring back the glaciers by painting the mountains white and thus lowering the temperatures and making it possible for ice to form.
It’s still in a pilot stage but seems to be working. Now they need to figure out how to best use this method and find a business model to pay for it. It seems very labor intensive which is creates jobs.
What if you could make the communities (and cities) downstream, which benefit from the glaciers as a source of water pay for the whitening of the mountains? In most situations these kind of schemes don’t work because the glaciers are still there. And thus the service they provide is always for free. But in this case the glaciers disappeared, so now cities and communities have an incentive (and maybe money to spend) to bring back the glaciers and the water source.
(Source: CNN)
After watching this video with an interview with one of the founders of Eleaf I couldn’t stop thinking about the possibilities. I could easily see companies like Esoko build their own apps and use all this information to help their farmers.
Being able to tell how the plants of a 1 acre farm are doing through a satellite image and text the farmer that she or he needs to water them is simply revolutionary.
A short article about this whole movement on CNN
Find out more on Eleaf.com
(Source: eleaf.com)
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