Importance of hydro plants

1. Cheap to run and maintain once they gave been set up
2. Save thousands of women from the drudgery o milling grain by hand
3. Generate electricity light, which improves the quality of life for people
4. Enable electric cookers to be used, which save trees and time previously spent collecting guel wood
5. Allows communication to manage their own power supplies
6. Act as a significant input for the human resource institutional and technological development
7. Promotes local participation through cash/ subsidy
8. Creates opportunities to become shareholders for local community