People living in rural area of Africa can use mobile phone to drink clean water. Researchers of Britain has build Data Transmitter which can be embedded inside the hand pump.
This transmitter sends sms when hand pump stops working. These transmitter would be installed in 70 villages of Kenya. Information about this technology has been discussed at General of Hydroinformatics.
Dependance on Hand pump
Millions of people living in Africa are dependent on Handpump, but it is believed that 1/3rd of these hand pumps not works properly.Handpumps located at distant places repairs takes even months. Africa has changed in last decade and it is believed that people who own mobiles are more than people having access to clean water.
That's why for better management of hand pumps Researches from Oxford university has used mobile phone.Researchers put Transmitter in the handle of the pump. It measures speed of the handle,using which it can measure water flow inside the pump.
Using this technique , central office keeps on getting updates about pumps and mechanical can be mar shelled immediately after fault reports.
Other advantage of this technique is that they can measure total consumption in Kenya.
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