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Last Updated: Nov 20th, 2008 - 05:48:24 |
Ron: Given that well over a billion people lack any sort of reliable clean water supply in Third World countries today, the playpump looks like a winner until the GF and zero point energy devices arrive on planet Earth. Clean water means much less disease and much less work for this generation of young Third World goddesses. A simply yet life changing technology. "Beauty bottler" cobbers!
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Children Pump Clean Water While Playing on the Merry-Go-Round
Friday, November 07, 2008 by: Ginger Coleen
Key concepts: Water, Clean water and Health
(NaturalNews) PlayPumps International, a US non-profit organization,
has come up with a very innovative way to help Africans obtain clean
water for their families. The PlayPump is a sustainable, patented water
pump that gets its power from children. The PlayPump is a
merry-go-round that doubles as a water pump.
The
spinning of the merry-go-round pumps clean water from underground into
a 2,500 liter tank, standing seven meters above the ground. A simple
tap makes it easy to draw water. All excess water is diverted from the
storage tank back down into the borehole. The pump is able to produce
up to 1,400 liters of water per hour at 16 rpm from a depth of 40 up to
100 meters.
Women and girls in Africa are primarily responsible
for collecting enough water each day for cooking, drinking and
cleaning. This often means hauling heavy water containers for many
miles taking, on average, three hours a day. The weight of the water
containers is equivalent to about 44 pounds (20 kg). Many young girls
and women must walk as much as six miles every day to retrieve water
for their families. Some have to make the trip twice.
In much of
the world, we take water for granted. We turn on a faucet and out it
comes. We flush a toilet and think nothing of the amount of water it
takes for that flush. When you flush that toilet, you’re using the same
amount of water that one person in a less developed country uses all
day to wash, clean, cook and drink.
The World Water Crisis
Our
bodies are made up of over 60% water and our brain is about 70% water.
We become thirsty if we lose just 1% of that water and if we lose 10%
we can die. Dehydration is responsible for about 80% of deaths from
cardiac arrest.
Today, there is a huge water crisis on our planet. Consider these facts:
• Only 1/10th of 1% of the water on earth is drinkable.
• 1.1 billion people worldwide do not have access to clean water. That`s 18% of the world`s population.
• Unsafe water and lack of sanitation is now the single largest cause of illness worldwide.
• 5,000 children under age 5 die every day as a result of unclean water and poor sanitation. That`s one child every 15 seconds.
• Half the people in developing countries are suffering from water-related illnesses.
Unless
we do something to change this trend, by the year 2025, the number of
people without access to clean water could increase to 2.3 billion.
PlayPumps International Partners
River
Bennett, a high school student from Nantuckett, MA has been working
with local businesses and community groups. He also organized a
swimathon at his high school to help people connect with water issues
at home. By doing so, he’s helping Africans access clean drinking
water. River, along with many others, is raising awareness and money to
help install PlayPumps in Africa.
By 2010, PlayPumps
International and its partners plan to bring the benefits of clean
drinking water to up to 10 million people through the installation of
4,000 PlayPump(c) water systems in 10 countries in Africa. To date,
they have donated more than 1,000 PlayPump(c) systems in South Africa,
Lesotho, Mozambique, Swaziland and Zambia. The effect has been to bring
clean drinking water to millions.
Each of the four sides of the
above ground PlayPump(c) tank contains billboards. Two of the four
billboards contain health and educational messages, while the other two
are for consumer advertising that generates enough revenue to pay for
pump maintenance.
Benefits obtained from the PlayPumps are huge.
Of course, the health benefits are the most prominent from improved
water supplies. However, it also frees up the time normally used for
obtaining water, allowing women and children to use this time more
productively. Now, children can attend school and gardens can be grown
to produce healthy food for families. Poverty and hunger become a thing
of the past.
To learn more about PlayPumps International, you can visit www.knowh2o.org and www.playpumps.org.
They have many videos, a blog and links to other information that can
further explain the process and the benefits of the PlayPump(c). You
can even sign up to sponsor a PlayPump. And, be sure to take the water
test at knowh20.org (click on the Play link). You’ll be surprised at
the answers.
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About the author
Ginger Coleen is a Computer Technician turned
Nutrition and Wellness Coach who overcame a debilitating, long-term
illness through juicing and learning to become healthy. She enjoys
spreading the word of healthy nutrition and technical innovations that
allow us to sustain our natural resources. For natural solutions to
cancer, weight loss and other health solutions you won't find at your
doctor's office, she has created Get Well Books. Her review of healthy weight loss programs can be found at the Weight Loss Review Center.
Found at: http://www.naturalnews.com/024732.html
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