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Practical Action
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Water and sanitation videos
Practical Action helps local communities in the developing world gain access to services such as water and sanitation, vital for a decent quality of life. Some examples of how they go about doing this and the technologies involved are demonstrated in these videos:
- Dying for a drink - solar powered water pump. Drinking dirty water is the only solution for some children in Kenya. Installing a solar powered water pump changes their lives.
- Eco toilets in Peru - one woman describes how Practical Action helped her and her family make an eco-friendly toilet and the benefits they received from it.
- Low cost sanitation in Zimbabwe - low cost solutions to sanitation in Zimbabwe are shown in detail
- Pump it up! - The science behind how a water pump works and why it is important to the lives of people in Bangladesh is illustrated in this video.
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Solar powered water pump video 28.03 MB
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Eco toilets in Peru video 12.51 MB
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Pump it up video 45.22 MB
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