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Clever Water Pumps Count on Children Playing on Them

published by sbchapm

4 months 3 weeks ago • 6991 views

tags: pumps, water, smart, playpump, child labor

from
http://blog.guykawasaki.com/ 2008/ 02/ the-cleverest-i.html

Kids play on a merry-go-round and pump water for villages at the same time. Girls benefit in particular because they are usually the ones fetching water. How cool is that?!

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*documentary
*humanitarian

written by thesnipe

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Adding video to channels (Humanitarian) - requested by thesnipe.

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I'm sure the billboards help out a bunch in BFE Africa.

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>> ^Chaucer:
I'm sure the billboards help out a bunch in BFE Africa.

Yeah, sort of a weird place for billboards, but... as long as they're getting money for 'em, whatever.

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Tags for this video have been changed from 'pumps, water, smart, playpump' to 'pumps, water, smart, playpump, child labor' - edited by sometimes

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Narration by Captain Kirk.

"Sometimes...it's the simplest of ideas...thatcanchangetheworld...most profoundly?"

written by gorillaman

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If the kids play too long, can they over fill the tanks? I'm suspecting a possible design flaw.

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Brilliant.

written by HaricotVert

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Well if they play to much i dont think it would be to hard to have another tank, then you can double your water supply. So as the population grows so does the water supply

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A sweet idea to say the least.

written by Kerotan | 4 months 3 weeks ago | CH

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Great clip. I hope this actually works as well as they hope.

written by LuketheDrifter

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Upvote for the ladies at 1:00 balancing the 5 gallon buckets on their heads with no hands as they hoof the water back.

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Anyone know why this video has 63 votes but isn't in the top 10? Perhaps it's a time issue, and I missed its quick rise and then it timed out. I dunno.

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