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THE VIABILITY AND RELIABILITY OF SOLAR WATER PUMPING SYSTEM AND ITS EMISSION REDUCTION POTENTIAL IN RURAL KEBELES OF ABAYA DISTRICT OF OROMIA REGIONAL STATE, ETHIOPIA
Abstract
In developing countries like Ethiopia, Pumping water for domestic use, livestock drinking and farming activities is becoming common practice particularly in water deficit arid and semi-arid areas. However, diesel based water pumping motors, which predominantly adopted so far, were identified to have limitation in improving communities life due to its’ unreliability and high diesel cost, and at the same times contributing to environmental pollution by emitting greenhouse gas. While the government and development partners were exerting significant efforts to convert the diesel engines with solar pumping technologies.