aQysta: Reducing Smallholder Irrigation Costs by up to 70% 

USAID’s Global Development Lab aims to bring the latest innovations directly to USAID programs on the ground. Your program has been identified as potentially benefiting from an innovation, called the Barsha Pump. You are invited to join us for a short webinar to explore how the Barsha Pump may help you achieve your program goals.

About the Innovation:  aQysta’s Barsha pump is a highly efficient, sustainable water wheel technology. The pumps provide fresh irrigation water, without polluting the environment and at zero operating costs to the farmers. The technology is supported by grant funding and technical assistance through Securing Water for Food: A Grand Challenge for Development. Currently operating in Nepal, Indonesia, Turkey, Spain, Colombia, and Zambia, the Barsha Pump is rapidly expanding to new locales.

Why Join? Join us to learn more about how aQysta and it’s Barsha Pump are helping farmers save up to 70 percent in irrigation costs and how this technology can potentially benefit your programs.

About the Speaker:  Lennart Budelmann has co-founded aQysta together with Pratap Thapa, who grew up on a family farm in rural Nepal. Pratap saw first hand how difficult it was to irrigate crops without access to expensive equipment or a power source. Both met at Delft University of Technology (the Netherlands) and today their goal is to help farmers just like those in his village get access to cost-effective irrigation technology that harnesses the power of a river or irrigation canal.

Please register for this webinar by April 10, 2017. If you have any questions or issues with registration, please email lkavanaughulku@usaid.gov.