Wow! This concept is so simple, I can't believe it's not available to the 1.4 billion people who suffer daily without access to adequate water.

As we have pointed out elsewhere in this blog, 2.2 million people around the world die of diseases developed by either the lack of or the access only to dirty water. About half of them are children.

Women and girls have the burden of searching for clean water and they lose over 40 billion hours a year in their quest. It's the #1 reason many girls in rural areas never go to school --they're more valuable as water hoarders.

Playpums were created with this reality in mind. The company has found a unique way of supporting the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals by creating playground equipment that harnesses children's play power in order to bring water to a whole community. And with the merry-go-round firmly in place in a community space or a school, women and children but especially girls, do not have to forgo learning to spend countless hours looking for a drink of water.

I am really impressed with this amazing example of engineering ingenuity.