Traditionally, smallholder families collect water in water buckets from a river stream.  Water pumps have been something to suite the hardworking community of farmers.  The rural farmer is limited on one acre of land.  There is a pressure on the rural farmer to limit the number of children to afford education and make money to improve standard of living.   A solar powered water pump  is tailored for the purpose.  

The standard of living in rural outskirts of Kakamega compared with Nairobi is caused by climate change.  Environmental shocks trigger smallholder families to act on sales promoted by MoneyMaker a district sales force trained by the Michael Fisher sales team.  The marketing campaign is supervised by Allan Spybey at KickStart, Nairobi, a hydro-mechanics tech firm sponsored by VisonFund that again is governed by the Skoll Foundation situated in Palo Alto California.

The agricultural districts located just North Eastern cost of Lake Victoria holds a high atmospheric pressure.  The moisture content remains high over the course of the day.  A  short-rain season retains the water in the air until middle go July.  A prolonged draught lasts until late August.  Then the long rain season sets in in early September.  The long rain period extends over the course of the day and males the soil very wet.  In fact, the soil goes runny and surface water flows over over the ground and makes streams form. 

The beginning of the rainy season cause small siblings to grow on the fertile soil dampened from night rains.  The humidity hovers over the lake.  The humid air is blown over the slopes to north eastern slopes of the inland lake.  The humid air strikes the colder air over the forested land area north of Kisumu town.  

The early growth of the soil fertilizes the soil layers beneath the surface.  The tropical temperature varies within a band of 2-3 degrees per season.  The moist fresh air is rich in live and wild Nitrogen gases.  In the outskirts of the big city the common bean seeds lie ready in a warehouse.  The agricultural planting program has allocated stacks of the stuff for distribution to OneAcreFund field workers.  A specific breed of the bean named “the lab-lab bean” is chosen by field officers and prepared for distribution to a community of  smallholders.  These hardworking farmers are conscious of the fact that the bean can absorb free ranging Nitrogen in the air.  The lab-lab bean holds the bio-chemical quality of attracting bacteria to its root system.

In the soil layers beneath a certain bacteria is attracted by the lab-lab knob residuals formed on root stem.  Some microorganisms attach to them and feeds off Nitrogen gases present on the root surface.  Just below the surface organisms thrive.  The bacteria live in symbiosis through-out the host plant´s lifetime.  Bacteria life does last no longer than 5-8 hours.  Then other bacteria takes hold of the root and continues the cycle.  The biological cycle is termed Rhizobia.  Lab-lab is the colloquial term put on the common bean.  The seedlings are tailored to fertilise the earth, restore soil organic matter ready made for seasons of  seed planting to come year after year.

The unique properties contained in the process is called rhizobia.  The farmer cluster committed to planting common bean of this kind intercrop the grain with maize.  Their staple food is enriched by a protein-rich foodstuff.  The food supplement improves their diet.  The change in staple foods makes their bodies more tolerant to hard work.  More prolonged dry season, shorter short rain and maize crop less tolerant to army worms cause the maize yields to drop year in year out.  An intercropped fields maintain an active Nitrogen fixing cycle.  The maize contains the Nitrogen in the soil while the lab-lab bean extracts the wild gas from the air.  The maize is fed on a soil more rich in micro-organisms.  The fungi develops a resilient network of microbes.  The conductivity is enhanced by an increase in Nitrogen fixation from two crop yields paired up on the acre. 

The demand for a water pump has more potential as the farming families has a more healthy diet.   A starch rich one-sided diet based on maize is no longer depended on a single crop. The common bean added to the food cycle maintains a balanced diet for the hardworking smallholder.

A farming community embraces a cluster of farms.  The smallholder conserves a common farming policy contained in the national agricultural heath plan.  One cluster consists of eight to fifteen smallholders.  The cultivation of common bean intercropped with maize is organized under the leadership of a field officer.  The competitive advantage contained in harvesting two crops in one season has these advantages to the crop farmer:

The lab-lab bean fertilizes the soil in the process called rhizobia .  The nitrogen rich soil contained in the lab-lab root system prepares the common bean for the uptake of minerals rich Iron, Calcium and Magnum all vital for the healthy growth of bone marrow, muscle and skin tissue.