Trevor Field and the PlayPumps of Africa
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Case Details:
Case Code : LDEN057
Case Length : 21 Pages
Period : 1998-2008
Pub Date : 2009
Teaching Note : Available
Organization : Roundbout Outdoor; Playpumps International
Industry : Social Sector
Countries : Africa
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Water, Sustainability & Child's Play Contd...
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They have also to contend with the fact that hand pumps break
down often and remain un-repaired for a period of time. "By some estimates, 35
percent of Sub-Saharan Africa's improved water sources are out of service at any
given time, mainly due to hand pump breakdowns. When broken pumps aren't
repaired, communities are forced to return to unsafe water sources,"4 wrote Geoff
Hopkins, an operations analyst for the International Finance Corporation (IFC)
in Johannesburg, South Africa. Since this responsibility is linked to gender,
women and girls spend a disproportionate part of their time hauling water - time
that could be better spent with family or on economic activities, or in school.5
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According to experts, in many regions of sub-Saharan Africa,
women and girls have to trudge an average of 8 kilometers to the nearest water
source every day, and haul back containers of water weighing about 40 pounds.
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The absence of improved water supply has not only led to gender inequality but also affected the growth potential of the region, they said. The PlayPump was a child's roundabout (merry-go-round) attached to a water pump, a storage tank, and a tap.
As children played on the merry-go-round, the system pumped water to the storage tank and communities living nearby could use this clean water.
The four surfaces of the storage tanks also doubled up as billboards for
commercial and public education/social messages... |
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