Earlier this year, the Ministry of Irrigation and Lowlands in Ethiopia announced that it will be ending imports of fossil fuel powered water pumps. Instead there will be a focus on green energy options, including solar. This ban on fossil fuel powered water pumps has the potential to cause a seismic shift in the sustainability […]
Use of lightweight, rollable solar film to power water pumps will increase access to irrigation for the world’s 500 million off-grid smallholders. […]
What a year! The holiday season is always a good time to take a moment and reflect back on 2021 and think about our plans for 2022. It’s been another very busy and exciting year at Futurepump, building on the opportunities and challenges of last year and developing our work even further. Here are some […]
As we are in the midst of COP26 – we want the answer to be yes… but we’re certainly skeptical. Thoughts from our Marketing and Comms Manager […]
Futurepump India’s factory in Rajkot, Gujarat experienced 70% of annual rainfall fell within a single 24-hour period. Thankfully our team escaped unharmed, but they experienced huge disruption with the collapse of a local check-dam, site-wide evacuation and persistent power cuts. […]
Learn about Futurepump through the Distributing Solar podcast – we talk about how the company was founded, to our customers, to future plans! […]
“It was a great pleasure meeting President Kenyatta! He knew precisely what a solar irrigation pump was and why a farmer would want one.” […]
Futurepump’s remote monitoring logger can give an accurate picture of water extraction, which could support new government policies. […]
Futurepump now has distributors in 15 countries and over 7,000 smallholder farmers are benefiting from free energy irrigation. […]
The campaign for female education (CAMFED)’s gold-medal winning garden is on display at the Eden project, UK. Can you spot our solar pump? […]
Small-scale farmers are the first to experience the consequences of below-average rainfall and consequential drought… […]
Futurepump team members from across the globe joined in peaceful climate strike protests as part of our sustainable business mission […]
We supported the campaign for female education (CAMFED) #SeeGrowth through a donation of a solar pump to the RHS Chelsea Flower Show garden […]
The International Solar Alliance is led by India and France and aims to mobilise a trillion dollars of capital for solar energy by 2030. […]
In 2016, I acquired my own solar powered water pump and an overhead tank. Futurepump has helped me increase from 170,000 seedlings to 250,000. […]
Following a product launch this week, the Futurepump SF1 is now available in Ghana through Hatoum Trading Company. […]
The sustainability sector is faced with a unique challenge, to disrupt current practices and bring a new era of sustainable business […]
The truth is there is an unstoppable revolution going on, despite some very shaky support from policy makers. […]
Al Gore speaks at the Ashden Awards 2017 and brings a message of hope – the sustainability revolution is here and ready to disrupt […]
The team are jumping-up-and-down-excited to announce that we have won the 2017 Ashden International Award for sustainable energy and water! […]