PRACTICA is a non-profit technical advisory organisation with the mission to strengthen skills and tools in low and middle-income countries. We develop and promote affordable technologies with a high potential to improve livelihoods. Our priority is to integrate technical innovations into business models to ensure sustainable access to water, irrigation and sanitation.
LORENTZ technology uses the power of the sun to pump water, sustaining and enhancing the life of millions of people, their livestock and crops. This is encompassed in our company strapline – Sun. Water. Life.
Futurepump is a manufacturer of solar powered irrigation pumps for smallholder farmers. Across the tropics, there are an estimated 500 million smallholders, many are struggling to irrigate their land daily. We started commercial sales in 2016 and have sold over 8,000 pumps, with a turnover of $1m last year.