Solar pumps Tharparker
Location: Tharparker Desert SE Pakistan
US Partner: Relief and Rehab Asia Inc.
Global Partner: The Pravalli Welfare Trust, Pakistan
Project Description: Install Solar Wells in the Thar Desert, Part II
Project Year 2024
While the soil in the Tharparker desert is fertile, the lack of reliable water supply poses a huge challenge for the roughly 1.5 million residents. Traditionally, the villagers rely on digging water wells for access to water. However, the water table is receding rapidly and the villagers need to dig much deeper wells. In some villages, the wells are so deep that it takes a whole team of women to lift just a bucket of water.
Manually operated Deep well
The Sumar Lakhani Foundation in partnership with RRAI and the Pravelli Foundation completed a few solar pumps in 2023. There are over two thousand villages spread all over the Tharparker desert. To meet the needs of additional villagers more solar pumps were installed to supply drinking water as well as water for domestic animals and farms.
