Solar panels now pump clean water for Amazon river villages

In Brazil's Amazon, the river community of Nova Sociedade — where families once walked up to 20 kilometres (about 12 miles) for water in the 2024 drought — now fills its storage tanks with solar-powered pumps installed in June. The non-profit Saúde e Alegria has equipped 30 communities this way, and each Nova Sociedade household also received its own solar kit for lights and phone charging, replacing costly diesel generators.

SDG 6 · Clean water and sanitation — Mechanism: infrastructure build