2004: The Aga Khan Rural Support Programme (AKRSP) has installed over 180 micro-Hydro Power units in remote communities in the Hindu Kush, North West Frontier Province of Pakistan. The units supply electricity to about 175,000 people. The program won a 2004 Ashden Award. The Ashden Awards promote local sustainable energy solutions in the UK and the developing world (Ashden Awards, 2004).
Reference: Ashden Awards. http://www.ashdenawards.org/winners/akrsp
Image Description: The head of the channel supplying the micro-hydro plant at Garam Chasma, in Pakistan’s Hindu Kush, a few miles from the Afghan border. The photo is credited to Martin Wright. Image Location: Ashden Awards. http://www.ashdenawards.org/winners/akrsp Image Permission: This work is copyrighted and unlicensed. However, it is believed that the use of this work to illustrate the subject in question, Where no free equivalent is available or could be created that would adequately give the same information, on Interlinked Challenges, hosted on servers in the United States by Michigan State University, qualifies as fair use under United States copyright law.
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