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[http://www.monoflo.com/nov-monoflo%C2%AE-and-water-all-bring-clean-water-rural-african-communities NOV MONOFLO® and Water For All bring clean water to rural African communities.]
 
====The Play Pump====
[[Image:PlayPump.jpg|thumb|right|300px|The Play Pump. <br>Photo: [http://www.waterforpeople.org/extras/playpumps/update-on-playpumps.html PlayPumps International.]]]
 
Trevor Field of South Africa teamed up with an inventor and came up with the "play pump" -- a children's merry-go-round that pumps clean, safe drinking water from a deep borehole every time the children start to spin. Soup to nuts, the whole operation takes a few hours to install and costs around $7,000. Field's idea proved so inventive, so cost-efficient and so much fun for the kids that World Bank recognized it as one of the best new grassroots ideas.
 
Video of the [http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/watch/player.html?pkg=entrepreneur&seg=13&mod=0 Play Pump.]
 
[http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/rough/2005/10/south_africa_th.html South Africa: The Play Pump, Turning water into child's play.]
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