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Organization: SWS Filtration Limited
Field of Work - Water
Year the initative began (yyyy) - 1993
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Project URL: http://www.swsfilt.co.uk
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What is your signature innovation, your new idea, in one sentence? - To set up more Canzee Pumps Workshops where we will teach others how to make these reliable, easy to install, easy to maintain hand pumps.
Describe your innovation. What makes your idea unique and different than others doing work in the field? - At the heart of the Canzee Pump is an ingeniously simple pumping principle. Just one plastic pipe moving up and down inside another plastic pipe. At the bottom of each pipe is a simple non-return valve which uses a rubber disc cut from an old tyre inner tube. Unlike piston pumps, it does NOT need close fitting piston seals. The pumps can run trouble free for months or years, but when a new disc is needed it can be fitted in minutes at virtually no cost. This tested, tried and reliable design allowed BushProof, our collaborators in Madagascar to win a World Bank Development Marketplace award to set up their own workshop to make the pumps themselves. We are now planning the next workshop (in Malawi) where we will make pumps but also teach others how to make them and then help them set up their own workshops in their home countries.
Delivery Model: How do you implement your innovation and apply it to the challenge/problem you are addressing? - For 15 years we have been developing the Canzee Pump AND the simple techniques to make it. We use basic workshop tools and as many local materials as possible. Now, wherever the pumps are being used people love them. They tell us they work, they are reliable and easy to maintain. We see the best way to promote and disseminate the pumps is by helping people set up their own workshops in their own couintries.
How do you plan to expand your innovation? - We are currently planning our Malawi workshop. We have funding for the tools to make the pumps (Lathes, drills, saws etc.) and sufficient materials to make 800 pumps.
In addition to making pumps for the local market, this workshop will be a teaching centre and a model for others. Once the workshop is up and running we will invite others to come and make the pumps alongside us. When they have learned the basic skills we will help and encourage them to set up their own workshops. (We already have had requests from those who would like to be the first pump students.) Although the present design is tried and tested, there is still room for more innovation. In particular we are being asked how the pumps can be made ENTIRELY from materials which can be sourced locally. This will be very big challenge if the performance of the pumps is not to be compromised. Do you have any existing partnerships, and if so, how do you create them? - What type of partnerships to do need? We already have close links to many development groups ranging from private self-help initiatives, to NGO'S, and charities large and small. I am very happy to work with any indivicuals or groups seeking to improve the health and well being of less privileged people by the provision of clean water.
Provide one sentence describing your impact/intended impact. - To improve easy and hygienic access to shallow water supplies through the use of inexpensive, reliable and easy to maintain hand pumps.
How many people have you served or plan to serve? - This question is like asking, How may trees could you burn down with one of your matches?
Answer. If the conditions are right, an entire forest. If they are wrong, NONE ! Canzee pumps are already one of the most popular pumps in Madagascar. In 2004 and 2005 we made and supplied hundreds, and now BushProof have made hundreds more. Perhaps 150,000+ people have been served to date. We have also supplied very modest numbers of Canzee pumps to Ghana, Niger, Nigeria, Tanzania, Indonesia, Nepal, Equador, Congo, Kenya, Sudan, Chad, Zimbabwe, Angola. I could go on. I think I will just have to say that we have already helped lots of people, and when we have set up more workshops, we will have served LOTS more!
Please list any other measures of the impact of your innovation? - On the face of it, water pumps simply offer the chance of better quality water, and with it better health. However, that might not be the entire story. Where a project is seeking to help a community on a wider front, with health education and sanitation for example, a reliable hand pump may give them an opportunity to demonstrate in a very tangible way a genuine concern and desire to help the community and thus establish trust and cooperation.
Exactly who are the beneficiaries of your innovation? - Because Canzee Pumps are quite inexpensive, they become much more affordable to smaller groups than traditional pumps. So whereas in the past pumps were for general village use, we now see them serving compounds or in private hands.
The pumps can be placed on open wells, shallow boreholes or rain water storage tanks. How is your initiative financed (or how do you expect your initiative will be financed)? - we have been most fortunate in being given funding for the Malawi workshop by a private donation, (see www.wellsforzoe.org) but when others approach us for support for training or setting up their own workshops they will also require funding. We are in discussions with several Rotary Clubs (an organisation which has given us tremendous support over many years) who have recognised Canzee Pumps as playing a key role in the search for affordable clean water.
Provide information on your finances and organization: - Current Annual budget (2007 fiscal year)?
Annual budget for the past 1-2 years (2006 and 2005)? Annual revenue generated? What are your current sources and/or streams of revenue? Do you currently have sources of earned income (examples?); If not, why? Richard Cansdale is a specialist in the installation of sub-sand sea water intakes. (i.e. wells in beaches to supply clean salt water.) This on going commercial activity has provided sufficient income to let his water development work be conducted on a non-profit-motivated basis. Much of our funding which has allowed us to provide pumps free of charge has been given by Rotary Clubs, Churches, schools and individuals. Our pumps are made in a tiny workshop on a very modest scale to minimise overheads. Annual turnover is very variable (c £75K) but my policy has from the start been that long term success of the pumps was much more important than anything else. What is the potential demand for your innovation? - How do you estimate this demand?
Number of staff (full-time, part-time, volunteers): The potential world wide demand for inexpensive yet reliable hand pumps is massive. We, and many others believe the Canzee Pumps are one such pump. We have no desire to set up a large organisation ourselves, rather, we want to teach people how to make the pumps and then help and encourage them to set up their own workshops. What are the main barriers to financial sustainability? - The sale of hand pumps alone is rarely going to be profitable, and in any case, the cost of the pump is only a small fraction of the cost of the well digging/borehole drilling, so the financial sustainablity of the workshops will depend on how each workshop is set up. We envisage a number of different business models depending on local circumstances and funding opportunities. Social Enterprises, Co-operatives, NGO's, charities, not-for profit, or for profit.
What is the origin of this innovation? Tell us your story. - In 1982, while introducing "well jetting" to Kano, North Nigeria (to extract water from sand rivers ) I introduced Rower Pumps from Bangladesh. (These are high volume direct action hand pumps, mostly for irrigation.) NewZealander Owen Jones heard about my work with Pumps (which won the World Aware Award for Sustaianable Development) and told me of his invention, The NewZealand Pump, which used two plastic pipes, and no close fitting piston seals. I visited him in 1993 and since then have been developing the pump to make it even easier to make and maintain. It has taken years of dedication and innovation, but now whenever and wherever people try it, they love it. Lots of people have said to me, "Why doesn't everybody know about this pump?" I tell them that they will soon!
When I first visited Africa plastic pipes were rare but now they are made in most capital cities which means that at last, Canzee Pumps can also be made locally. The biggest breakthrough occurred in 2004. We supplied Medair in Madagascar with 20 Canzee Pumps. After a year, not one had broken down, even once. The only one to stop working was fixed by the community who removed a leaf from a valve. We supplied hundreds more for a cylcone prone area, and now BushProof are making them in Madagascar. People tell me they're the pump of choice in Madagascar. Please provide a personal bio. Note this may be used in Changemakers marketing material - Richard Cansdale has worked in water development since 1977. His innovations have included well jetting (washbores), self-jetting wellscreens, filters for hillside spring protection, easy to make Rower Pumps, geotextile wrapped screens for use in fine sandy aquifers, and most recently the Canzee Hand Pump.
He is believes that his background in biology and teaching has helped him develop techniques and technologies which are truly appropriate and sustainable. Setting up more Canzee Pump workshops is his next challenge. Contact Information:
Richard Cansdale
Director SWS Filtration Limited (Non profit motivated business) Discussions about this entry
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Canzee Pumps Work! So let's now make Workshops to make Canzee Pumps.
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Thanks you for your comment Michael,
We hope you will be able to come to Malawi and learn how to make Canzee Pumps at our workshop in Mzuzu.
Best regards,
Richard
Thanks you for your comment Michael,
We hope you will be able to come to Malawi and learn how to make Canzee Pumps at our workshop in Mzuzu.
Best regards,
Richard
Dear Canzee,
Your innovation is thought provoking and quite sure will get prominence in time to come.A
African hope to gain more form this innovation in an effort to reduce poverty meeting the U.N MDG through safe water and good health.
Micheal ALE
National Project Coordinator
SAFE WATER FOR NIGERIAN CHILDREN