After writing the last post about pipes, I was interested to come across a company called Driptech on Linkedin. The founders studied the Stanford Institute of Design: Entrepreneurial Design for Extreme Affordability course. Driptech aims to deliver an extremely low cost drip irrigation system to developing country farmers, who cannot afford the currently available drip technology, so now use low efficiency flood irrigation.
Their innovation is in the manufacturing and distribution process rather than in the technology itself, but has the potential to have enormous impact on global water efficiency and food production. Well done guys.
The Entrprenurial Design for Extreme Affordability course looks amazing, and it is well worth checking out their website. They have a definite water focus, with a number of projects focusing on developing low cost human powered pumping solutions.
