Dr Martin Fisher has reportedly helped 300,000 farmers arise out of poverty because they used his invention-money maker pump. This pump is used for irrigation purposes.
Fisher, through his non-profit organization KickStart, has taken an active role in helping to spread his technology to farmer/entrepreneurs in Tanzania, Mali and Kenya.
This pump is manual treadle pump that will direct water to where it is needed, pulling water from a depth of seven meters and lifting it up fourteen meters above the water source. No fuel or electricity is required to operate the pump.
Martin’s co-designers are Robert Hyde, Mark Butcher, and Adblikadir Musa.
He is awarded the Wins Lemelson-MIT Sustainability Award. The award money is $100,000.
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