Tharparkar is a district in Pakistan’s Sindh province and one of the poorest parts of one of the world’s poorest countries in the world. It’s suffered from drought for 17 straight years and an estimated 87 percent of its 1.6 million people live below Pakistan’s poverty line.
The lack of water resources is particularly critical so a Michigan-based NGO with Pakistani roots, the Paani Project, decided to do something about it, setting as its goal a solar-powered water plant in one of the district’s poorest villages, Rohal. As one of the hottest places on the planet, it has plenty of sunny days.