Playpumps International

[adolfarrakahane]

purpose built= efficiency- lower cost

gimmick built = inefficiency higher maintenance and cost

[adolfarrakahane]

stupidest damn thing i ever seen in my life. all that mass is going to give a coronary to anyone over 30. must be the brainchild of some liberal intellectual.

the road to hell is paved with playpumps and good intentions!!

[ScamallDorcha]

4:06 , faster kid, faster!

[mcbwebdesign]

"To help pay for the pump, the pumps double as a billboard". Erm, who are they advertising to...?

[Funkycatty]

@mcbwebdesign It's probably just the point of being advertised I guess.

[trivuong]

Amazing kid can play around all day and can help too.

[rachel14604]

this is wonderful!

[bluegirl123321]

We should put some in America too so we won't use up all of the diesel and electricity. :D Revolution!! So now everyone has clean water, AND we're saving the earth! I'm sad that I'm doubtful that this will ever happen :/

[dzgfdg]

the most retarded idea ever.

[skyewalker]

@dzgfdg Dude stf up you sound like a fucking idiot going to every page and making the same stupid comment. Did they steal your idea or something??

[HunterMann]

Great concept and as sincere as their objective is, many have questioned this being borderline child labor, especially that it can take 24 hours to fill the local tank each day. I just watched a 3-year follow-up on this project on PBS Frontline/World program. I hope that Trevor Field will post a video to answer the many questions about why this project is not 100% successful.

[pacman599]

This documantary makes me thirsty.

[bmarkrussel]

yeah

[FairWaterFoundation]

it is not what is seems, with a lot of effort you have just a fraction of a normal pump, besides, after a while kids dont want play anymore and when it breaksdown, often within 6 month, most Playpumps are not repaired and all investment has gone.

No wonder Playpumps are now banned in most African countries, people maybe poor, but are not stupid!

[skyewalker]

@FairWaterFoundation And what are you doing to help??

[dzgfdg]

@skyewalker thers no point in helping when traditional pumps are useful than this shit.

[Piepenguin6]

how does the keep the bucket on her head

[stumblingguppy]

Anything that keeps girls in school is brilliant.  Available water promotes equality for Africa's women. It will change the world.

[cnor005]

this show licks my greasy ass pubes

[jlehner1]

You might just be the biggest horse's ass to post a comment on YouTube. Congratulations!

[buhrrito]

dude this is the smartest shit ever

[GunitaSingh]

@buhrrito WORD!

[alphafirstoneyou]

And you had to relay on stragers to do what you should be doing your selves. a billboard? wtf? replace it with childrens art work. sew some confidence.

[rudeawakeningxxx]

it's too help pay for it dumbass

[jlehner1]

Your spelling is so bad I cannot determine what your comment was intended to mean.

[CONNIESCOOKIES]

Great ideas with kids playing to make clean water to live a healthy life.

[wjhaye2]

this is a truly revolutionary idea

[m8cct]

I love the ingenuity of this idea, its exactly as the guy described it, simple, relatively inexpensive, but very effective for solving a multitude of problems, I'm proud to say, I am participating in a show at my school that doubles as a fundraiser in which we will be donating half of the proceeds to playpumps international, and I couldn't think of a better way to be using the money.

[AliAwaisAmin]

wow this is indeed an excellent idea , very ingenous one............. It solved the problem in a beautiful manner!

[beyoku]

Yep, sure do. The Children just looked like a family that i knew that is from Uganda. The adults didn't though. Just curious where it was.

[beyoku]

Where is this Uganda?

[27Morpheus]

At the source of the Nile, Lake Victoria, in Central Africa. Next to Rwanda, Tanzania, etc.

You do know where those are .. don't you?

[S3ECATZURIEL]

yes, just monitor ads

[crneroses]

thats the whole point, why else would it be built in this manner? to make labour fun. Stimulation for the children, water for all.

[imovieshow]

what a great technology , igneous way for kids yo have fun and provided one of life's essentials

[Equanox214]

if it kills 6,000 people every day why are tehre so many damn people on earth lol

[louchuis2coo4u]

yeah thats pretty wierd

lolz

[27Morpheus]

It has to do with the fact that it is an estimate, and that there are just alot of danm people on Earth.

This is an estimate concerning a real phenomenon, and not some political BS - like those estimates about this or that conflict killed millions and injured billions etc.

[mp3dog101]

spinningaroundspinningaroundsp­inningaroundspinningaroundspin­ningaroundspinningaroundspinni­ngaround

3 hrs l8r...

fresh water for everyone!!

[crneroses]

that woman is a beatiful angel come to help.

[louchuis2coo4u]

i think they could build at least 325 of those a year

soooo get on it!!!

[magerboy]

i wish i could help people when im an adult

[gangots]

thankz god

[narutofan2112]

I wanna spin on that!

[wulfluver14]

Wow, thats awesome. Spinning around like that seems pretty fun, and also it makes water. =D thats an awesome idea.

[WatcherMovie007]

This invention could so help the poor and sick countries that need this.

[MinatoNamikazeSenpai]

thats what i call an idea..

i would be there spining all day if i could,

just to help them out..

i hope this idea works out..

[coincorporations]

perfeito

[rexcmk]

Is this project feasible in China as well?

[xlegionsx]

that's creative. wonderful!

[ProjectSplash]

Don't forget to donate to ProjectSplash to raise money to buy a play pump

[PONJOnco]

that's so interesting....

saving that little place with the power of kids....ain't that cool

[KrazyRawb]

Wow thats awesome.

[toxicolor]

God bless these people. I really wish even at 15, I can help.

[swiles89]

it is unbelievable how they can balance those buckets on their head and just walk so casually w/o them falling

[whalesands]

BLACK POWER.

[nightlypaladin]

Thats sad. Saying things like that differentiate any demographic further then present states and saying things like that assist nothing.

[marcooandnohelii]

drinkible.............lol

[ClamLuvr]

They imply that water pumped out of the ground is always clean. That is not true. The water can still contain pollutants and also bacteria such as coliform. Hey it is fine that they are promoting their work to raise funds. But they shouldn't do it by misleading people.

[ClamLuvr]

Oh, so they are using child labor. Did someone at Nike invent this?

[Mom3805]

That is so stupid to say, and not funny either I bet u cant do anything to save millions of people.

[ClamLuvr]

You are right. I can't save people and neither can you. All of those people are going to die. You and I are going to die too. It isn't my fault if you can't accept that obvious fact. Hey, let's have some fun before we go.

[orion421]

why make it simple...lol

[SSShino]

smart

[dizzy613]

innovative, these are the problem we in north america should focus on.

[vampirelady69]

Great idea.

[LuiBabe56982]

lol i thought this said "platapus international"

so wen i saw this i was like wtf?

[SirBunnyII]

Lets just face, they're to lazy to boil water...what a surprise. We gave them a free pump... I am surprised they didn't ask us to pump their damn water for them.

[Lunto88]

stupid comment from a stupid person...

[RedEHaze]

Boiling water doesn't get rid of ALL the bacteria. Most of the bacteria/viruses that remians are mainly the one that causes those diseases.

Besides that face, I sorta do agree on the fact they don't boil their water.

[SirBunnyII]

So you can honestly say that you would not see a dramatic drop of the risk to get disease/bacteria from boiling, oxidizing/iodizing, and from use ultra violet light to purify water? The sad fact is that all of these methods are pathetically cheap.

[Ohyawellfuku]

that just made me unimaginably thirsty for some of my clean spring water 20 feet from our house ^_^ ima go up there and grab me a glass (it literally pops up right there)

but ya im not a redneck i got a well to haha

[111olbap]

damn darkies

[Repression]

Boiling stream water would require one to take the time to go to the river and back and time to boil the water. If one really wants to purify just a day's worth of water, it'd take forever.

The pump gives clean water AND saves time in transportation, thus also allowing, as the video pointed out, girls to receive an education.

You are expressing your hatred for these people by using very weak logic.

[SirBunnyII]

Also about nitrates in the fertilizer, that wasn't even a reason they mentioned. Why not? They have personal gardens. Unless they are pouring enough fertilizer as you would on a corporate farm, they don't need to worry about nitrates in the water, especially from a river that is always in circulation.

[thetorrs]

well done trevor field, amazing inventor of this system. south africa leads the way in so many things and this is a truly great humanitarian contribution! 'one water' uk is supporting this project too. makes one feel that people really care.

southafrican in london

[bigmike4569]

Thats just awesome! Im glad we still have decent ppl to do things like this!

[SirBunnyII]

Lol I enjoyed the clip. Playbump uses the power of children having fun! Lol, we also use this renewable resource but we call it child labor.

Clean water and purified water? Are you serious? You boil the water. We all did this shit sometime in our lives. Also, you can boil it, put a pies of plastic over it, and collect the condensation with limited amount of materials, work, and effort!

Monkies have even figured this process out. Are you dumber than a monkey?

[maximilian111]

Boiling doesn't remove nitrates and other chemicals. Fertilizers and pesticides remain. And not everybody has access to plentiful fuel and materials to do boil and condense water, and some chemicals still remain in the condensed water. It's also a waste of time when you also have to till the fields and do a lot of other chores. This Playpump is a nice alternative.

[SirBunnyII]

I am not saying its not, but I think they're over exaggerating. The problem is not the water itself but the lack of water in the first place. Fuel to make a fire - dried vegetation (seems to be a lot around coming from the droughts) and flint. All the other chores like... wash clothes and pass AIDS to the next person? Seriously, we all did this in our civilizations. It kills DISEASES... which was their MAIN reason for giving them a pump.

[Lunto88]

please stop talking racist shit you retarded retard. i can´t believe you dumbass just wrote that AIDS is a good thing because you think in fact it helps wipe out diseases! you only have shit in your brain and i hope you die soon, hopefully you get AIDS so you learn what it is like you fucking piece of shit.

[Maia22]

SinistralEbb - I don't think you get it. these people are not the problem. It's the U.S that uses 80% of the worlds resources.

[Maia22]

SinistralEbb - so you're suggesting "don't give this poor people clean water, let them live their lives suffering and sick and that's okay because it keeps our "population in check"? I'll tell you what's sick - you're idea that says not everyone deserves a quality of life.

[IRideDolphinsNaked]

!!! She balanced a huge bucket of water on her head with no hands!

[jchiapet]

so the alternative then is to do nothing at all and let them all die? shit, i thought nazism was out of fashion. as well, we're not encouraging large populations, we're encouraging better standards of living, but you seem to be against that. besides, the world is full of resources, the challenge is to extract them in certain places. i don't see this as taxing our resources further, i see this as extracting resources that would have otherwise unused.

[Maia22]

SinistraEbb - EVERYONE deserves a good quality of life. Yes the worlds resources are taxed due to the climbing global population but people are not going to stop populating so whats more important is reducing our ecological footprint. THAT will help to reduce long-term consequences on our world. Playpump is not "encouraging" large populations it's giving humans a better quality of life.

[solutionsplease]

thank you play pump! Creative for human kind

[Ghettoman30002000]

nice rack

[emilyrl]

This video is beyoned awesome!

[jchiapet]

well given that as societies develop birth rates tend to decrease largely in part due to education. a more abundant source of water will lead to more crop development because it's now easier to sustain larger farms because there is more water, so to asnwer your question, more pumps like these make it much easier to sustain larger populations.

[C0ct0pus]

well, you seem to have thought this through, and i'm not here to change your mind...neither of us is going to change a damn thing in those people's lives, so it's really not worth continually bickering about.

[C0ct0pus]

so in order to avoid any other 'problems' we should just not bother to solve any problems at all? great plan...lets take no action and get it started.

[C0ct0pus]

amazingly enough, the world's population has been growing exponentially for...well, millions of years...even more amazing is the fact that we produce huge quantities of food to feed that population. if your argument is that there are people starving around the world, ok. but denying those people fresh water isn't going to solve the problem of overpopulation or starvation. access to wells that were unattainable before is a GOOD thing.

[C0ct0pus]

it seems you're quite the expert on the subject...what are you doing wasting your time on youtube? and not even making videos...just posting your opinionated comments...what a waste :)

[whaib87]

I hope they did include a barf bucket in the play-pump kit, these kids are really gonna need it. By the way the user "C0ct0pus" is a complete disgrace and an idiot. Though personally I got a good laugh from his comments about "SinistralEbb's" and "trenchcake's" arguments against PlayPumps Int.'s intervention.

[claudiomaracatu]

genial! the northeast of Brazil needs that!

[articphase]

You fucken retards the modernization u are speaking of is the same fucken technology polluting our ancient way of leaving in Africa, we are not barbaric our ways of leaving have been fucked up and we can't adapt to the first world country because we don't have the resources and you idiots seat behind and bitch about shit u know nothing about come down to Africa and see who is fucking up our natural resources its companies from abroad especially Europe and the U.S. u fucken imbeciles

[thegoosebrain]

lol...oh, yeah? What planet are you from, Hick? Just how is one to make fire with no fuel? And by the way....wood is a fuel, but they have little there and what they did have is LONG GONE!

Lord help the truley stupid in this country.

[Spongeluv11]

I like the home improvement music lol

[C0ct0pus]

this is awesome, but i wonder how many villages can actually benefit from it.

[C0ct0pus]

so are you a genius that has contributed to the world? if not, we should kill you as a result of your own argument. not having the resources to do something is NOT the same as being too stupid to do it, asshole.

[tonypata]

Thank you for setting sinistral straight I could't have said it better.

[trenchcake]

do you even understand what the argument is? it has nothing to do with sinistral being a genius or contributing and it also has nothing to do with your last statement. let those people figure it out on their own instead of having a bunch of whiteys go in there like they have since the beginning of time and screwing up their civilization.

[C0ct0pus]

screwing up their civilization by providing clean water? you are a bigger fucking idiot than sinistral. i'm sorry that your main concern is with the color of the skin of the people trying to help, not with the fact that many lives will be improved and saved. tool.

[Spiralworm]

This is not a good idea, It's a brilliant idea. I am still floored by the creativity and enginuity of the designers. I know how it feels to have to walk a long distance to get water for ur daily needs and it sucks. Sometimes the largest volume of water u can carry is never enough to do what you want and u have to go back with the big old bucket. I never enjoyed doing it but now that I'm older i realize it was some of the best times of my life.

[Tallacus]

genius idea

[poretely]

i love the place ^^ so facinating love to go there to search for mineral water ^^ ahaha

[hailstorm1375]

what an amazing idea!

[Brimstone87]

I'm not sure on this but couldn't they just add wind driven pumps in the same area? And at the same time couldn't this also create electricity?

I'm probably wrong just thinking out loud, or typing lol..

[TheGreatKeen]

well... with wind driven anything you need wind...

[angrymallard]

Whenever you use smaller and more complicated appliances, problems arise. Of course the villagers could be trained to monitor, repair and use the appliance, but that costs money. Complicated appliances themselves also cost more money, and break more easily, at which case they might have to buy/receive spare parts.

Too many expenses and difficulties. Maybe later when the societies become more self-sufficient these appliances might arrive, but in most parts of the world, we're not there yet.

[trenchcake]

yes! teach them to be modern and completely extinguish the already shattered remains of their ancient culture. fucking retards

[angrymallard]

What should they do then? Buy fuel with money they don't necessarily have, or rely on foreign aid that might stop on that?

Fuel in any of it's forms is ridiculously pricy - even I try to use none in my western existence and use simple honest human labor instead. We never run out of that.

[RideTheRapid]

awesome

[Meshari85]

I always knew it that kids are usefull.

[killerwill55]

people like that shud be respected... they want to learn unlike some people..

[thegoosebrain]

..they need fuel for that, Jethro!

Looks like you can get a job with the Bush white house with your I.Q. about the world.

[trenchcake]

why don't you join that administration as well

[soundrone]

this is awesome i want one too!!!

[harryramma]

Fantastic!

[LovelyYTRocks]

Instead of saying "white people as fucking racist", say "thank you white people!" for clean water.

[top2d2]

I'd like to see the KKK do what this for Africa.

[pornfartin]

i'm hot for teacher. holy crap! (3:44)

[pornfartin]

who cares. playing is fun.

[angrymallard]

Just as they say in the video, water may take a whole day or half a day to haul back. The pump takes far less time to generate water and it can be done on any time of the day, leaving the kids time for school.

[dafttool]

Innovative solution to an ages old problem.

[frazz42]

I think more important is getting clean, safe water.

[blauwepiet]

a billboard? who is gonna see it?

[nepatriots7501]

nice vid

[LastSong]

That's such a great idea.

[TheJack0fHearts]

First Comment xD

[nepatriots7501]

4th you idiot

[imNYCe89]

firstzors comment olololoolo

[thacrooked1]

good vid