Spinning Game Pumps Water in Africa

Access to clean drinking water is a critical and essential for the city dwellers to survive in extreme poverty, yet over one billion people worldwide lack access to clean water and 40 billion hours are lost every year during the long journeys these people have to move to find purified water.

That’s why a non-profit company has developed a way to adapt the spinning game for children to pump clean water in rural Africa, in a way this is a renewable energy provided by the children. Over 700 devices have already been installed in South Africa and they are planning to install a 100 more in Mozambique.

These games can pump up to 1400 liters of water every hour at a speed of 16 revolutions per minute at a depth of up to 40 meters below the ground; water is pumped into a tank of 2500 liters that is placed 7 meters high to generate fall pressure.

These game spinning devices are installed near schools; the so called “PlayPump” provides easy access to drinking water and provides fun for children, improving education, health and development.