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Water Crisis - Learn
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Who has the most creative idea for solving the
water crisis?
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
Your objective:
Pick YOUR favorite, awe-inspiring clean water project — and tell the EVOKE network about it in a blog post.This objective is worth +5 knowledge share
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Comment by Salans porkyman pigdude on March 26, 2010 at 12:18pm
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Comment by Lisa Shalfoun on March 26, 2010 at 4:32am
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Yes, I also began the game only a while ago and I was beginning to think about London partly under water... and BTW I liked the parallels to Spooks - The series! - and then there is nothing. I would love to discuss this a little bit, at least.
I have the impulse every now and then, to change the assignments a bit so I could contribute the way I'd like to. Maybe I'll do it. I am just so very individual and I'd like to learn AND have fun. I don't like to act or think in a frame that is kind of narrower than what I'd like it to be.
Actually, intuition and ideas only come if you have no frame of reference, no frame of an assignment. I get it that we are here to learn which is great. But I thought there'd be more space for us to have ideas. Pure ideas. Yes, the meal in 2020. Gosh, McDonald's is still going to be there, we all know that... Anyway, I'll come up with something cause it is a nice and playful idea for an assignment.
I guess we need to improve the game a bit, eh? What do you think, Matthew?
Innovators and inventors have been looked at as crazy, time and time again so why not act up a bit, be anarchistic and wild?
I WANT TO HAVE FUN WHILE SAVING THE WORLD!
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Comment by Kelsie O. on March 25, 2010 at 2:12pm
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I am still getting the hang of being on evoke!! : )
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I am not sure I understand how the game works. When I read the comic introduction to the mission. It described a water crisis due to flooding and the contamination of an existing clean water source.
The organizations list on this page are wonderful solutions to areas without access to a conventional clean water source. But these systems are susceptible to contamination during a catastrophe like other sources. Shouldn't the solution be to come up with a short-term emergency solution to a water crisis.
Most of the solutions listed on this page require construction, outside intervention, and complicated logistical solutions not suited for emergency response in third world countries. Could someone who has been playing Evoke a little longer than me please help me understand how this works?
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Comment by Patricio Buenrostro-Gilhuys on March 25, 2010 at 2:37am
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This invention looks like so much fun!!! Check this out!!! This is the cheapest way I´ve seen to purify water- Just put water on a transparent water bottle and expose it to the sun for some hours. that kills all bacteria!!! Water Purification in Kenya http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNLwaLLc8og
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXepkIWPhFQ&feature=channel
I think, this is really grate invention!
but actually, all ideas are intresting!
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Comment by David N E Hodson on March 25, 2010 at 12:12am
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I personally really like the way Water For People is going about this, lots of ideas and many are very resourceful and very creative.
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