Solar pumps up incomes for Nepal's quake-hit farmers

SHIKHARPUR, Nepal - In the village of Shikharpur in Nepal's remote Himalayan foothills, the faint sound of water can be heard trickling through a large metal pump.

Standing in golden mustard fields, a huge solar panel powers the pump that provides some 40,000 liters of water daily to families still recovering from Nepal's devastating 2015 earthquake.

"Before (the pump) we used to walk two or three hours a day to collect water," said Daley Sarki, a vegetable farmer whose mud home still bears the cracked scars of the disaster.