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Comment on The Playpump – A Review from Teachers by Aaron

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Comment on Subtle Parasites and Public Health by Bombchell in Atl

Bombchell in Atl — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 04:50:21 +0000

i really don’t miss untreated tap water, at least I was in boarding school and it was expensive to constantly load up on bottled water, and tap was the norm, well except when I got typhoid, and stocked up on bottled water for about 2 terms.

Anyways wash your mangoes at least. but I can’t point fingers, I procrastinate a lot even when it comes to health.

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Comment on The Playpump III – “The challenge of good inquiry.” by Ken Pearce

Ken Pearce — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 13:16:42 +0000

An interesting and very unbalance blog if you don’t me saying. You’ve managed extremely well to highlight the negatives and about PlayPumps, evening going so far as to cherry pick quotes from organisations who have chosen not to support the PlayPump scheme, why no quotes from organisations that do support? Or even links to the various positive remarks/findings?

You state that “I’ve visited 3 now” – that’s less than half a percent of the total of installed PlayPumps (reading elsewhere they have in excess of 1500 installed). That’s hardly a decent cross section, but I suspect that you may have visited more by now as the last update on the blog seems to be 6 months ago. Are your findings exactly the same?

I would be interested in you following up your article, preferably speaking to those directly involved in removing existing pumps and placing in the wheels/tanks to ascertain why they chose to do that. From the various positive posts/videos on YouTube, there are cases where no hand pumps actually exist and communities have had to walk several miles in order to have water and usually unclean. Are we arguing that PlayPumps are not worthwhile in these cases? Or are advocating a single solution for all scenarios?

On the video where you time the output of water, were they situated on the same site, with the same water depth? Or are we proving drawing water from 5m as opposed 15m is easier?

A agree that the Playpump is not without its faults, that’s the same in all walks of life, but the article I feel is in danger of propagating a myth and increasing a level of uncertainty as to whether we should invest in projects to aid those in most need. Africa, and other areas of the globe need access to clean drinking water and Playpumps, along with AfriDev all add to this aid and we should congratulate them to trying rather than simply knocking them and trying to prove one system is superior to the other.

Hope to hear you update soon with a little more balance.

Thanks

Ken