Who has the most creative idea for solving the
water crisis?

Meet Ned Breslin, the CEO of Water for People. He’s helping local communities in Malawi get the clean water they need in a truly innovative way: with a special merry-go-round called a PlayPump.

How does the PlayPump work? Ned explains:

“While children have fun spinning on the PlayPump merry-go-round, clean water is pumped from underground into a 2,500-liter tank, standing seven meters above the ground.

A simple tap makes it easy for adults and children to draw water. Excess water is diverted from the storage tank back down into the borehole.

The water storage tank provides a rare opportunity to advertise in outlaying communities. All four sides of the tank are leased as billboards, with two sides for consumer advertising and the other two sides for health and educational messages. The revenue generated by this unique model pays for pump maintenance.”

There are many more projects like the PlayPump. Your LEARN mission this week is to discover at least one of them.

Who else has a truly creative idea for solving the water crisis? Find a great, big idea and share it with the EVOKE network.

Here are some places to start your investigation:
Water 1st International
Water.org Projects
Water for People
Water Projects on School Grounds

Your extra objective:

Pick YOUR favorite, awe-inspiring clean water project — and tell EVOKE about it in a discussion post.