Introduction

Very often, the remotest villages and micro-communities in the world suffer from a lack of available fresh water and electricity. These rural populations leave in extreme poverty, isolated from the rest of the world and generally forgotten by their government. However, without those primary resources, they can’t aspire having decent sanitary conditions or minimum education, economy, and life comfort.

Our project gives an answer to those problems, by proposing a system that will equip the village by a sustainable and self-sufficient electricity generation, clean water production, and fresh water distribution. However, we should precise that to make the previous possible, our project must be integrated into or complemented by a micro water gravity damn installation, which will not be treated in our report, as it does not require much expertise. The climate and geography of the regions should then allow this kind of installation, implying relatively high reliefs and constant rainfall through the year. We aim then to touch specific villages or micro-communities that only because of a lack of infrastructures, skills, and financial resources, cannot afford to have fresh water and electricity. More precisely, we have designed a system (see Fig.1 below) that from a water inlet, generates electricity, purify a reasonable volume of fresh water using electrolysis technology, and redistribute the rest of the water to the village.

Through this report, we will first of all invoke the socio-geographical features of the villages or communities that can benefit from this project. Then, we will dedicate a whole section on the electricity generation, the choices we have made (turbine and generator technologies) and its estimated efficiency. Next, we will present our method to purify the water, its process and outcomes. Finally, we will describe the distribution and management of the resources made available (water and electricity), ending up with a general picture of how those resources will be managed providing the village specifications.