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Meet Ned Breslin, the CEO of Water for People. He's helping local communities in Malawi get the clean water they need in a truly innovative way: with a special merry-go-round called a PlayPump.
How does the PlayPump work? Ned explains:
"While children have fun spinning on the PlayPump merry-go-round, clean water is pumped from underground into a 2,500-liter tank, standing seven meters above the ground.
A simple tap makes it easy for adults and children to draw water. Excess water is diverted from the storage tank back down into the boreh***.
The water storage tank provides a rare opportunity to advertise in outlaying communities. All four sides of the tank are leased as billboards, with two sides for consumer advertising and the other two sides for health and educational messages. The revenue generated by this unique model pays for pump maintenance."
There are many more projects like the PlayPump. Your LEARN mission this week is to discover at least one of them.
Who else has a truly creative idea for solving the water crisis? Find a great, big idea and share it with the EVOKE network.
Here are some places to start your investigation:
Water 1st International
Water.org Projects
Water for People
Water Projects on School Grounds
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The idea for the merry go round is genius! It pumps water from the ground while kids in the area can have fun at the same time!
The Merry go round could easily help kids around the world. It is a very creative and useful idea to use when in play. Kids will get quality water by using the idea.
The merry go roud idea is amazing. I really like it because its not only fun, but helpful and efficient.
i love the merry-go-round- idea. little kids can have fun and help their village or community at the same time.
The idea from Ned is definitly my favorite! It helps kids while having fun be safe with cool drinkable water to go around.
cool, ya
Got to go!!!
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I agree with aidan its crazy, thats a lot of kids in one day.
Every 20 seconds a child dies from water related illnesses we need to fix this
yeah mixing fun and play will help everyone!!!!!
That sounds cool.
I'm in love with the PlayPump invention. I love how children can play there favorite playground toy and help their community at the same time. The PlayPump invention is an invention that pumps up 2,500 liters of clean water from underground. If this invention is placed at every playground then children can get millions and trillions of liters by having fun. :)
i like the merry go round idea the best. i like this one the best because not only does it conserve water and helps get people clean water it also lets the kids have fun while they are doing work.
I couldn't see the video ,but the description is good enough. I think this idea is amazing because not only does it make clean water, but it also lets kids have fun. My favorite water crisis solution device is the bamboo pump because it is super cool looking.
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