Hussein is very enthusiastic about what the success of this water generator means. “It saves on the fuel that we’re burning at power plants right around the country. So we could design even bigger water generators and put them into action elsewhere in Iraq. We have many rivers,” Hussein says, “we just need some government support to implement similar projects elsewhere.”
The director of Dohuk’s electricity department, Safar Tayeb, agrees. “We have the right environment here – we have rivers all over Iraqi Kurdistan. What Khaled Hussein and his group have done is an excellent starting point for future works.”
“As a government department, we totally support these kinds of projects,” Tayeb says. “They serve the public interest and they ease the burden on the government.”
But there is probably nobody who is as happy about Hussein’s water generator than those living in the small village of Bava. Previously they did used to use oil-powered generators to have some electricity in the village but it cost a lot and the generators would only be run a few hours daily, at most.
“Now we have electricity like all the other villages,” says one of the older villagers, a man called Bafi. “We’re really grateful to this invention – it means we can live a modern life.”
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