Indigenous People Designed Hydroelectric Power Plant

Two days ago, this author visited a community of indigenous people in connection with a research on valuing natural resources. He was amazed at what he saw. A simple but working hydroelectric power plant was built out of the ingenuity of a Pala'wan, one of the indigenous people of Palawan. Palawan is a province in the Philippines located at the western boundary of the country.

A Simple Idea Can Produce Results

This is the experience of Boyet, a descendant of the Palawan tribe in the hinterlands of southern Palawan. He saw on television a hydroelectric power plant and how water generates elec... From: Ingenuity by Indigenous People: Hydroelectric Power Plant Using Scrap Materials