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Jul 22, 2006
"For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow." --Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Turning Water Into Child's Play
The children push the merry-go-round again and again. As they run, a device in the ground beneath them begins to turn. With every rotation of the merry-go-round, water is pumped out of a well, up through a pipe, and into a tank high above the playground. A few feet away from all the fun, students in uniform turn on a tap. Clean, cold drinking water pours out. This is Motshegofadiwa Primary School, 15 miles north of Pretoria. It’s in a town called Stinkwater; locals say there’s a good reason for that name. Courtesy of the invention of a retired advertisemnt exec, there are now 500 "Play-Pumps" around South Africa, most of them installed at schools like this one, where students live in poverty and resources are few.
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