The Hippo Roller Is changing Lives

In the Western world we take clean drinking water for granted, yet 1.2 billion people live in areas of water scarcity.  In 1991, two inventors from Pretoria, South Africa invented the Hippo Roller, which has been changing lives for people living without running water, throughout the world.

In Africa, 40% of the poorest households do not have piped in water.  They have an economic water scarcity.  That means 750million African suffer from the lack of safe drinking water.  Women and children are negatively impacted more than men, because they are the ones forced to collect water for their family or village.  We all have seen images of women dressed in colorful costumes walking, with a jug of water on their head, from the river where they have collected clean water.  They spend hours doing this every day, and the results are devastating.  Long term neck and spine damage, and lack of education (girls need to collect water rather than attend school), and no time for economic activities are just some of the negative affects.

The Hippo Water Roller has  changed this difficult work for many villages.  First, the roller relieves women from the difficult task of actually carrying the water.  The Hippo Water Roller reduces travel time for water collection by 20%, and is changing lives for the better.

Through the use of the Hippo Water Roller Project, tens of thousands of hippo rollers are in use, transporting 5 times more water to homes and gardens.  Of course the project needs donations to get the rollers to even more people.  Go to Hippowaterroller.org to learn more about the project.