These free resources offer practical tools, checklists, and best practices to enhance your technical skills.
Solar Powered Water Systems: Design and Installation Guide
Get comprehensive guidance on all technical aspects of designing and installing solar powered water systems for rural water supply.
This free guide was created with UNICEF and Water Mission. It has been downloaded by people in over 130 countries.
Choose your preferred language to begin the download:

Solar Powered Water Systems: Operations and Maintenance Guide
Learn how to operate and maintain solar powered water systems. This guideās adaptable format can be tailored to fit your unique context.
Whether you’re an operator, technician, or trainer, this resource provides practical insights for ensuring sustainable water solutions.
Currently available in English only. French coming soon.
Helpful links from other sources to enhance your learning:
- Costs of Meeting 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – Technical paper on financial strategies to achieve 2030 SDGs
- Energypedia ā Solar Pumping Toolkit – Comprehensive guide for implementing SPWS
- Solar Water Pumping System Design – Tools from a workshop on holistic design of SPWS
- Solar pumping for rural water supply: life-cycle costs from eight countries – Research about 85 SPWS designed and installed by Water Mission
- Energypedia ā Capacity Building – Webinars and guides about SPWS
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