Welcome to SunGravity Online, hosted by the SUNSTOVE® Organization, a non-profit group devoted to the dissemination of information to improve the quality of life of the poor. This site is your source for information relating to clean water and solar cooking systems for rural communities worldwide. Our mission is to provide fundamental information and drawings to facilitate improving the safety and cleanliness of the basic elements of any family’s existence: Food and Water.

In underdeveloped countries and other rural communities, the only resources commonly available are natural: sun, gravity, the labor of the people in the community, rudimentary materials native to the area, and the occasional spring for water. Using our low-cost systems, people around the world can take crucial steps to clean their water and food supplies dramatically.

The “Solar Cooking” section provides in-depth information, drawings, and photographs on how to mass-produce solar cookers by hand, with local materials, purchased with local currency. You will also find a detailed article that appeared in SunWorld Magazine (Dec’98) outlining the success of SUNSTOVE®’s program in South Africa.

The “Water Systems” section includes detailed bulletins and diagrams on how to begin collecting and storing clean water. The diagrams shown with the text are thumbnail images; for larger drawings, click on the small image.

This section also includes instructions for capping and storing spring water, a “Gravity Water System” plus links for securing the information on “Collecting Water from Fog,” and “Drilling a Water Well.”