Igniting social change
Playpumps are a low tech solution to one of Africa’s greatest challenges – access to clean drinking water. This life changing invention, utilizes human power – harnessing the power of play to pump water. As children play on a specially designed merry-go-round, borehole water is pumped into and stored in a 2,500 litre tank, where it can be accessed when needed.
It is World Water and Cape Town is beating to the sound of a gentle summer rain! In the spirit of this celebration of water, life and planet a group of International and South African artists (Zolani Mahola, Loyiso Bala, Stef Bos – to name a few) have gathered to create an original piece of music called ‘For Love Of Water’.
The Story of Bottled Water, releasing March 22, 2010 on storyofbottledwater.org, employs the Story of Stuff style to tell the story of manufactured demand—how Americans to buy more than half a billion bottles of water every week when it already flows from the tap. Over seven minutes, the film explores the bottled water industry’s attacks on tap water and its use of seductive, environmental-themed advertising to cover up the mountains of plastic waste it produces. The film concludes with a call to ‘take back the tap,’ not only by making a personal commitment to avoid bottled water, but by supporting investments in clean, available tap water for all.
In a world where clean drinking water is scarce and every year 3.575 million people die from water-related disease, engineer Michael Pritchard is literally a lifesaver…