What went wrong with PlayPump?
Problem was that it did not end up working out as planned. The PlayPumps needed to spin all day long in order to provide enough water for a community. That meant children and adults were no playing, but walking endlessly in circles to get the water out of the ground. The over-hyped idea failed spectacularly.
Who invented the PlayPump?
Trevor Field
Trevor Field invented the play pump, which is a playground merry-go-round that can produce enough water for up to 200,000 people.
What does a PlayPump look like?
PlayPump looks like the kind of colorful merry-go-round you’d see at a children’s playground. The attached tank can hold 660 gallons (2,500 liters) of water, enough to provide clean drinking water for 2,500 people each day [source: PlayPump International].
How many PlayPumps are in Africa?
The PlayPumps Alliance, comprised of PPI, the Case Foundation, USAID and other private sector partners sought to raise US$60 million by 2010 to provide 10 million people in 10 sub-Saharan African nations with access to clean and safe drinking water through the installation of over 4,000 PlayPumps.
Where has the PlayPump scheme been introduced and why?
The PlayPump was invented in South Africa by Ronnie Stuiver, a borehole driller and engineer, who exhibited it at an agricultural fair in 1989. Later it was adopted by the Kenyan Government but was disbanded after it was proven to be ineffective.
What challenges were encountered in some of the communities where the PlayPump was installed?
Site visits and reports to evaluate the PlayPump cited inappropriate site selection, technical malfunctions, poor maintenance, lack of local community support, and children not playing as expected on the pumps.
What is PlayPump and how it works?
The PlayPump system operates much like a windmill. As children play and turn the merry-go-round, the rotation drives a mechanism to draw water from an underground well to a secure storage tank above ground. The stored water flows from a faucet with a simple turn of a handle.
Where has the PlayPump scheme been introduced?
South Africa
History. The PlayPump was invented in South Africa by Ronnie Stuiver, a borehole driller and engineer, who exhibited it at an agricultural fair in 1989. Later it was adopted by the Kenyan Government but was disbanded after it was proven to be ineffective.
What are the benefits of the PlayPump?
The PlayPump is often the only piece of playground equipment at a school and provides the children with a constructive and rewarding way to use their energy. Improved health by virtue of a reduction in water borne diseases. This leads to a reduction in the number of cases of diarrhoea.
What is the African roundabout PlayPump?
Playpumps International, which provides water pumps for African villages, sounds like a marketing dream. Children play on a merry-go-round, and as they do so water is pumped from the ground for storage in an elevated tank. Smiling, playing children, solving Africa’s water problems.
Why does a PlayPump ™ system make a difference to schools and communities What are some other ways we can help the water crisis?
Why does a PlayPump™ system make a difference to schools and communities? Children can play while they pump water from the ground into a holding container for future use. A simple tap provides easy access for women and children drawing water.
Why did people not like the PlayPump project?
The dissatisfaction of users of the system was compounded by the fact that, contrary to the impression created by the PlayPump’s publicity, the project did not bring water where there was none before, but were usually placed on existing boreholes, replacing hand pumps.
What was my PhD thesis on the PlayPump?
The PlayPump is the central case-study in my PhD thesis ‘Radical Plumbers and PlayPumps – Objects in development’ (2011), which looks critically at the relationship of first world audiences and developing world users via designed objects.
Is the PlayPump a metaphor for child’s play?
The PlayPump apparently literalises the metaphor of ‘child’s play’: a simple idea that just works, and which in this case actually relies on children’s play. Through the PlayPump, two apparently opposite ideas, (adult) ‘work’ and (child’s) ‘play’ are collapsed. PlayPumps International’s strap line was ‘Kids play.
How many puppies are born in a day?
Dogs have 1,700 taste buds, which might seem a lot at first. However, when compared to the 9,000 which are on a human’s tongue, it seems a very small amount! In 2008, a study showed that, on average, 1.2 million puppies are born each day.