What electricity is capable of
The use of electricity in rural areas can:
- Enhance education by allowing studying beyond daylight, introducing better learning conditions such as computer facilities, internet and distance learning if there is a lack of teachers
- Reduce isolation and marginalization by the improvement of communication and information channels such us telephony, TV, cinema, radio and computers
- Allow for the implementation of safety measures such as street lighting, security lighting, remote alarm systems, electric fences, road signs, railway crossing and signals, warning lights, etc.
- Improve healthcare conditions by providing drinking water and lighting for rural clinics where vaccines could be conserved, blood storage refrigerators could be installed, operations could be carried out with sterilizations measures, diseases could be prevented by x rays and pregnancies could be monitored by ecographies
- Prevent natural disasters by giving the possibility of installing radio repeaters and receivers, remote weather measuring, data acquisition and transmission (for example, river levels and seismographs) earthquake monitoring systems, emergency power for disaster relief, etc.
- Foster productivity, since electricity also allows for irrigation, crop processing, food preservation, water pumping, fencing, agro processing, ice making, etc. The generation of income and welfare would enhance economic growth and provide the means to afford the electricity