 My name is Satini. I live in Surang village with my husband and son. We go to the field every day from morning until mid-afternoon. We look for grass for the goats. During the rainy season we grow rice and corn. The dry season, if it's a long spell, will last more than five months. Before, to anticipate the water shortage, we would only take a bath every two days. As farmers, we kept goats and often we would have to sell our goats to buy water. Whenever I recall how it was back then, it really breaks my heart. The tide started turning for Surang almost a decade ago when Dr. Ahmad Agus was studying for his PhD at Curtin University in Perth under an Australia Award Scholarship. His lecturer encouraged him to tackle the problem of how to provide power to remote communities scattered across Indonesia's 17,000 islands. The technology that I worked for my PhD was a hybrid power system. And then adapted to this special location where water is the highest priority. So we bring the technology to provide water. The system he developed, together with fellow students, won an International Engineering Award. And the prize money gave him the chance to finally ease a burden that Dr. Agus had carried with him since working as an intern with the Indonesian government in 1998. I was deployed for nine months in the region like this one. In fact, I learned how hard life is, how hard life was kind of remote rural area. I learned how the natural changes from wet season to dry season and how water just disappeared. Now, working as an engineering lecturer, Dr. Agus devised a practical course for final year students with a help communities like Surang with building and maintaining solar powered water pumping systems based on the award winning design. They come from different backgrounds, engineering, social science, medicine and agriculture and others. They live together with the local community and then they start to mingle with local communities thinking about how to solve the problem with the local community. Back in Surang, water is now available closer to people's homes and it's more reliable year round. This saves people time in fetching water and money in paying for expensive water tankers. And we knew that water is basic needs. Once we can provide the basic needs, then people can start to think about other things. They can start to think about how to generate income, additional income from activities like entrepreneurship and others. Now that I have more time, I produce banana chips. I sell the chips at the food store, but some people buy them directly from my house. My son's education is important to me because he needs to move with the times. I will need to sell about 10 packets of banana chips to pay for his transport to college every day. With water now being less of an issue, people here are also thinking about how to attract tourists to this beautiful spot. I hope that there will be more tourists coming. If tourists come, I hope they will be interested in my banana chips and that they would sell well. If we can provide more, this kind of activities, business and others, hopefully develop and flourish, hopefully youngsters start to think about the choice to stay here, to work here, to develop here, also to participate in the development in the location. The Ministry of Public Works was so impressed that they adopted Dr. Agus's system and are now coordinating a network of 10 universities to replicate it. What started as a PhD project in Australia has now grown into a huge potential for people across Indonesia.