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x Clean Water Using Solar and Wind: Outside the Power Grid 1.6 The Need for Cooperation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 1.7 Overview of the Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 1.8 Further Reading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Chapter 2 Towards sustainability goals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 2.1 The UN Sustainable Development Goals . . . . . . . . . 20 2.2 Public Health, Gender Issues and Education . . . . . . . 24 2.3 Further Reading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Chapter 3 The renewable energy revolution 27 3.1 The Global Picture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 3.2 Off-Grid Developments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 3.3 Scalability of Renewable Energy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 3.4 Cost Development of Solar PV and Wind . . . . . . . . . 36 3.5 Solar PV Global Expansion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 3.6 Wind Power Global Expansion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 3.7 Geopolitical and Economic Implications . . . . . . . . . . . 41 3.8 Job Skills to Mount and Operate Small Units . . . . . . . 42 3.9 Further Reading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Part II Water Technologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Chapter 4 Water supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 4.1 Pumping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 4.2 Pumping in Developing Regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 4.3 Pumping Characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 4.4 Pump Efficiency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 4.5 Components in a Solar PV Pumping System . . . . . . . 57 4.5.1 Solar panels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 4.5.2 Inverters and pump controllers . . . . . . . . . . . 57 4.6 Further Reading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Downloaded from https://iwaponline.com/ebooks/book-pdf/520710/wio9781780409443.pdf by IWA Publishing user