Posts Tagged ‘Technology’
Nepal’s Pinthali village goes off-grid, now suffers
The meticulously planned off-grid systems of power generation in a village suddenly can suffer a major undoing of the gains if grid electricity is brought to the place.
Isolated off-grid systems usually fail when the government does not have a clear roadmap on what they want to do in the village as far as electrification goes in the long term. Their very small scale of generation makes it difficult for off-grid producers to partner with electricity user groups. Read the rest of this entry »
Engineers don’t think, do they?
Engineering solutions over the last half century and more have taken a very insensitive civil engineering approach to community toilets. The solutions often lie in understanding the social. Problem is never with technology. It is to do with how people manning processes understand community needs and sensitivities.
