Rope pumps and Tippy taps

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• Rope pumps and Tippy taps
• WASH options for 3 / child
• Smart tecs that make
• children proud

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WHO studyImproved
watsan 5 - 28 benefit / 1 invested

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Problems in rural water supply Unsafe water
from open wells
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30 - 40 of piston pumps do not work
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Why dont people fix them

• Non payment by users, no cash
• Spare parts unavailable, costly
• No trained caretaker, trained people left
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• Complex, high cost --- Not repairable
• WSP- WASH 2004

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Improvements are possibleUsing new low cost
options (Smart tecs)
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Drilling with Rota sludge, Baptist 400
/borehole

• (2000 for
• a machine drilled
• borehole)
• Rota sludge till 43 m
• Baptist till 70 m deep

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Rota-sludge right. Baptist leftUse local skills
and materials
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Users help to construct the borehole
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Rope pumps can be repaired by teachers and
children
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• Results in Njombe after 3 years
• 160 communal boreholes, pumps
• 40 Pumps on dug wells,domestic use
• 8 pumps installed at schools, 300-400
  children/pump
• Over 95 are working
• Cost of water points reduced from
• 3000 to 600

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Sanitation

• Education
• Involve families
• in building
• latrines

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Reduce costs Test with conical latrine slab. ½
bag of cement, reinforced with wire
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Latrines at schools
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Tippy taps for hand washing
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SIPHON FilterCeramic silver impregnated filter
for point of use treatment. Cost 0.5 / child /
year
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Improved WASH at schools

• 1 borehole, rope pump / school
• 1 latrine / 50 children
• 1 Siphon filter / 10 children
• 1 Tippy tap / 50 children
• Cost 3 - 4 / child

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Cost - benefit for user

• A family well - doubles income
• A 70 Rope pump - yields 220/year
• Poverty alleviation as a bussines, SDC, U.
  Heierli
• Field survey 5025 families Nicaragua, Upoli,
  Cesade, ICCO

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Cost - benefit for donor
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Challenge WASH for all school children

• Improve water quality. Sodis, siphon filters
• Increase water quantity. Locally produced options
  rooftop harvesting, manual drilling, rope pumps
• Improve sanitation. Innovate latrines
• Improve higiene. Education, Tippy taps

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Options

• Increase awareness
• Demonstrate smart tecs on schools. Create
  Smart tec centres
• Build capacity
• Hands on training of NGOs, institutes
• Create a sustainable supply chain
• Involve local private sector
• (Profit based sustainability)

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Dare to be bold, dare to dream
All children can have water, safe and clean