Transforming Lives: Elephant Pump for Sustainable Water Solutions

1. Multiple Uses and Functions of Water with the Elephant Pump

2. History of Pump Aid • Zimbabwe and UK charity registration Oct 1999 • Pump Aid invited to assist 21 African countries • Winners of St Andrews Env Prize 2005 & 2008 • Malawi pilot launched by Vice-President 2006 • Winners of World Bank Dev Marketplace 2006 • Over 4,000 pumps and a million beneficiaries • Working in Zim, Malawi, Liberia, Mozambique • Seeding in Tanzania then Zambia & S. Africa

3. Who are Pump Aid? • Over a million beneficiaries (40M litres/dy) • 152 staff in Zim, Malawi, UK and Liberia • Professor Anthony Butterworth FRS • Professor Richard Carter • Shungu Munyati (Nat Instit Health Res) • Martha Rukuni ACA MBA • Ian Thorpe (Chief Executive)

4. More MDGs per drop • MDG7: (Target 10) Halve by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation • MDG1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger • MDG2: Achieve universal primary education • MDG3: Promote gender equality & empower women • MDG4: Reduce child mortality • MDG5: Improve maternal health • MDG6: Combat HIV/AIDS malaria and other diseases

6. Features of the Elephant Pump Include: Low Cost • Low initial inclusive cost per pump and per beneficiary • Five times cheaper than piston pumps (inclusive costs) • Ease of maintenance by the pump owner at extremely low cost Sustainable • Sustainable and suitable for the most remote and poor areas • Spare parts e.g. rope and washers made by the beneficiaries • Can easily be deepened should the water table fall • Adaptable design with a fallback extraction option (bucket) Appropriate • Suitable for dry-season garden irrigation and when rains fail • Built and maintained using only locally available materials • Beneficiaries contribute bricks, sand and some labour • Sense of ownership, due to involvement in construction • Can be adapted to use solar or wind power if required

7. Features of the Elephant Pump Include: Efficient • High extraction rates of about one litre per second • Yields high water quality, excludes sources of contamination • Far less energy used to lift a certain volume of water • Extraction of water possible up to 50 metres depth • Combined with self-cleaning hand dug lined well design • The pump itself is self cleaning, so cannot get clogged up User Friendly Design • Suitable for children and the elderly, safe and enjoyable to use • ‘Bicycle’ system encourages the involvement of boys and men • Culturally sensitive design which can be repaired by women • No danger of children or animals falling in as fully enclosed • Powered by renewable energy (hand /pedal power)

8. Agricultural Usage • Vegetable production (multiple sources) • Fruit trees and nurseries • Livestock and fish • Medicinal herbs • Dry spell irrigation • School nutrition gardens (bicycle)

9. Sanitation: links Domestic & Productive • Elephant Toilet uses Urine Diversion = Fertiliser • Avoiding deforestation - wet mud bricks, no need to boil water • Hand-washing facilities, natural soap • Health and Hygiene Education • Maintenance and Sustainability • Re-usable slab, plant fruit tree in pit

10. Impact on Livelihoods • Income generation • Time saved for productive activities • Reduced days lost to illness • Increased agric knowledge base • Child headed households • School attendance

11. Expansion Plans over seven years • 32,000 Elephant Pumps in Africa • School cluster, child-centred approach • 8 million with clean productive water, food security, 8 million fruit trees, livestock • 8 million people with improved sanitation • Seeding and training in other countries • Propagation through training partnerships

12. Thank You www.pumpaid.org