HAVE YOU ever watched children demonstrating their boundless energy, perhaps while feeling exhausted yourself? And perhaps fantasised about tapping it? One mother of Feedback’s acquaintance is wont to muse “give me a hamster wheel big enough…”
Members of a South African project called Play-Pump have gone beyond musing. Their prototype system, at Motshegofadiwa Primary School near Pretoria, uses a playground roundabout to pump clean drinking water up from a well (). This is a great idea because women and children in South Africa’s countryside can spend hours every day fetching water from distant rivers and springs. Hand-pumping water from…
