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- Hippo Rollers for Lesotho
- Kruger Park Project (Video)
- Handover: Mmangweni, Eastern Cape (Video)
- Handover: Taweni, Eastern Cape (Video)
- Let’s help the Mmangweni women who spend 4 hours a day collecting water
- Fighting poverty amongst children – the Tariro House of Hope in Zimbabwe
- Women carrying water: where it all started for Hippo Roller
- It’s Day Zero for more than 844 million people reveals #WorldWaterDay report
- Talk Radio 702’s Bruce Whitfield interviews Hippo Roller’s Grant Gibbs
- The Dynapump: clean water and improved irrigation for the Hippo Roller
- No more water containers on our heads – Hippo Rollers make access to water easier
- New Book: What a Great Idea! Awesome South African Inventions
- Small-scale farmers in Namibia benefit from the Hippo Roller
- How to make sure you are drinking clean water – Infographic
- Vanuatu WASH project in Tanna distributes Hippo Rollers
- FIRST® LEGO® League Challenge 2017 / 2018 – Solving a water problem
- Vanuatu: Cole Smith’s fundraising success story
- Fundraising to give Khula water – the story of a Dallas Hair studio owner (Video)
- Growing social enterprises – Hippo Roller attends Siemens empowering people. Network workshop in Amsterdam
- Return to give back: improving access to clean water in Sierra Leone
- Photo story: Rolling safe water the Marshall Islands way!
- Rotary Clubs improve water access for rural village in Limpopo
- Water and Poverty: How Access to Safe Water Reduces Poverty
- Slideshow: #Rolling #Safewater to #Haiti – this 2017 Giving Season
- Brand South Africa: Water, dignity and the Hippo Roller Project
- Innovation: This simple solution rolls a long way in ensuring water access – Bizcommunity.com
- Improved water access for Kenyan village – more time to live empowered lives
- WWF Report: Africa’s Watershed Moment – How better water management can underpin Africa’s development
- Women and clean water – Better access improves lives on multiple levels
- Water purification design for Hippo Rollers wins awards
- Mandela Day inspires action #ActionAgainstPoverty
- Hippo rollers form part of the United Arab Emirates 2017 Year of Giving
- SA GOOD NEWS: Running across Australia for water in South Africa!
- University of Johannesburg provides Hippo Water Rollers to Crèche in Diepkloof informal settlement
- Blue Water Shipping keeps it cool in Africa
- Running 40 marathons in 40 days to promote access to water
- “A Drop of Water” – new documentary focusing on the severe drought in Africa
- Help Chiedza Send Hippo Rollers to Zimbabwe
- New Pilot Project: Water, sanitation innovations to transform urban slums
- Radio interview with Hippo Roller on Classic FM South Africa – Classic Lifestyle 2 February 2016
- Significant investment is required to address the Global Water Crisis
- 10 Cases of Appropriate Technology
- Bolivia Declares Water Emergency, El Niño Blamed
- At last! Disabled man in remote KZN village receives a Hippo Roller to collect and store water
- Hippo Roller wins the Frost & Sullivan 2016 African Rural Portable Water Solutions Product Leadership Award
- L’Hippo Roller récompensé du « 2016 African Rural Portable Water Solutions Product Leadership Award » par Frost & Sullivan
- A 25th Anniversary gift for Hippo Roller!
- Un cadeau 25e anniversaire pour Hippo Roller!
- This is an excellent article using the Hippo Water Roller as an example to define innovation
- Welcome to the Za-na Junior Boxing Academy Hippo Roller Fundraising page
- 63 percent of rural India do not have drinking water source
- Don’t Invent – Innovate: The Art of Resolving Human Need
- The Hippo Water Roller to summit Mt Kilimanjaro for awareness and fundraising
- Can better access to water aid women’s rights in Africa?
- SA Government to invest in Hippo Water Rollers and other innovative solutions as part of its drought mitigating strategies in 2016-2017
- Le gouvernement d’Afrique du Sud sur le point d’investir dans des Hippo Water Rollers et d’autres solutions innovantes dans le cadre de sa stratégie d’atténuation de la sécheresse en 2016-2017
- Report: Using crowdfunding and community ownership to maximise the impact of Hippo Water Rollers in Mozambique
- Rapport : S’appuyer sur le financement participatif et la propriété collective pour maximiser l’impact des Hippo Water Rollers au Mozambique
- Iowa church improves water access in Malawi with Hippo Rollers
- L’église de l’Iowa améliore l’accès à l’eau grâce aux Hippo Rollers
- Hippo Rollers for Operation Hydrate and the Swartruggens community
- 200x Hippo Water Rollers (90l) to residents of the Likasi village near Witbank, South Africa
- 200 Hippo Water Rollers de 90 litres distribués aux résidents du village de Likasi, à côté de Witbank, en Afrique du Sud
- Drought-stricken Free State towns face long queues and insufficient drinking water
- South Africa’s Water Affairs Minister reveals the scale of the drought’s impact on rural communities and measures to alleviate it
- La ministre sud-africaine des Affaires relatives à l’eau révèle l’ampleur de l’impact de la sécheresse sur les communautés rurales et les mesures pour l’atténuer
- Report: Hippo Water Rollers are Changing Lives in Madagascar
- Rapport : Les Hippo Water Rollers transforment des vies à Madagascar
- Operation Hunger – Enabling Tax-free Contributions in South Africa
- Ongoing Water crisis in Lusaka’s Linda Township despite new water supply
- Walking a round trip of up to 100 km (62 miles) to fetch water in north eastern Kenya
- Mandela Day Hippo Roller Challenge 2015
- “One Street – One Tank” campaign in Grahamstown
- MaYalo Food Security project for women coops
- Nearly 1/2 the World Lacks Access to Clean Water and Sanitation – new WHO report shows slow progress despite billions in international aid
- California residents forced to carry water in buckets as the drought dries rural wells
- Hippo rollers for Gokwe in Midlands, Zimbabwe, sponsored by Cargill & Chireya Garden Project
- Mobile phone app improves access to water in Angola
- Gary White from water.org on the Water crisis: Lack of access by people to improved water supply is a crisis now
- Matt Damon: Access to safe water is just a few dollars away for many people
- Right to water of Kalahari Bushmen in Botswana violated by government
- Water crisis in the Free State negatively affects young children and the elderly
- Agricultural show, Innovation day, Empowering workshop, Community enterprises
- Nedbank Foundation – bringing clean water to rural South Africans
- UN World Food Programme (WFP)
- Mathibestad rural community with no running water
- CAF America – Enabling deductible donations to the Hippo Water Roller Project
- Running for Water in the Richtersveld – How one person changed the lives of 350 people in just 4 days
- Courir pour l’eau dans le Richtersveld – Comment une seule personne a changé la vie de 350 personnes en seulement 4 jours
- July 2014 – We celebrate Mandela Day! Take action today and honour the legacy of Mr Nelson Mandela.
- July 2014 – The Mandela Day Quiz: Do you know of a community where people struggle daily to collect water?
- July 2014 – DESIGN FOR SOCIAL IMPACT by Museum of Design Atlanta features the Hippo Water Roller
- Despite big water projects, millions in Nigeria’s rural communities still struggle to get access to safe drinking water
- Reasons for Iran’s drinking water shortage in the East Azerbaijan Province
- Hippo Water Roller and other African Innovations helping to transform the continent
- June 2014 – A smarter way to collect water! New Indiegogo crowdfunding project: Transform the daily lives of 67 water-stressed communities in South Africa.
- New Interactive Map of Africa’s progress on access to water and sanitation
- Severe drinking water crisis in Wadi Osher, North Darfur
- Hippo Roller at the New York Forum Africa – in Libreville, Gabon 23-25 May
- Hippo Roller Au New York Forum Africa – à Libreville (Gabon), du 23 au 25 mai
- February 2014 – A proven method to provide better access to water and achieve Social Responsibility goals
- Water supply restored after deaths of 3 protesters in Mothutlung, Brits – South Africa
- 300,000 People in West Virginia without access to tap water and 800 million worldwide
- DRAM: Mix a byproduct of the whisky-making process with a secret ingredient to clean pollutants from water
- Children help to carry water in thousands of Myanmar villages where there is insufficient drinking water
- South Sudanese women carry water containers amidst the current violence in the region
- Tens of thousands of displaced South Sudanese live in UN camps without safe access to water
- Proposed canal from Scotland to London could offer a sustainable way of meeting water demand
- December 2013 – Consider joining our Mandela Day campaign for 2014
- Nedbank partners with Wildlands Conservation Trust to distribute Hippo Water Rollers in KwaZulu-Natal
- December 2013 – Thank you Mr Mandela. R.I.P.
- Water Access: Woman Helping Woman
- November 2013 – We are at AidEx 2013 Stand H20 in Brussels – visit us 13-14 November
- From Waste Water to Pure, Clean Water
- Hippo Water Roller at AidEx, Brussels
- Focus on Israel’s Water Technologies
- October 2013 – Millions struggle daily to collect water… Help us eliminate this with broad-based returns on your investment.
- Coca-Cola Transforming a Shipping Container to Purify Water
- Social Enterprize Developed Cheap Water Disinfection Tool
- Hippo Water Roller Making Women’s Lives Easier
- Cilantro: Herb Can Help Purify Drinking Water
- Wells Bring Hope – 200 Wells Drilled
- September 2013 – Today’s The Citizen Newspaper highlights SA inventions including the Hippo water roller
- Solar Powered Water Purifier in the Jungles of the Yucatan
- New Fog Harvesting Systems Providing Even More Potable Water
- Solar Powered Water ATM’s
- The Facts of the Global Water Crisis
- Rural Residents Building Pools to Collect Water in Yemen
- Sponge-like Gel Absorbs and Disinfects Drinking Water
- Podcast: Talk Radio 702 – John Robbie 2 Sept 2013
- Hipporoller Race – Womens Day 2013
- Young Visionary Creates Cheap Water Technology
- Waste Water a Special Resource in Windhoek
- Treating Contaminated Water in Guatemala: Ceramic Pot Filtration
- World Water Week 1-6 Sep 2013
- Video of Pink Hippo roller races on Women’s Day – Upcoming handover of 67.67 Mandela Day rollers
- One Man’s Quest: Access to Free Water, No Plastic Bottles
- Data Base for Surface Water Access in East Africa Financed by EU
- Teenager Invents Cheap Water Purification System
- Bill and Chelsea Clinton Saving Lives By Bringing Clean Water To Africa
- August 2013 – New Pink Hippo rollers for Women’s day celebration at Pretoria Botanical Gardens
- Wind4Water – Wind Turbines Generating Clean Water
- Dagbreek Groen Bulletin on KykNet – SA TV Channel
- Water Stations in London Provide Free Water
- Free and Safe Water for Poor Households in Indian Slum
- UNICEF Turning Sweat Into Drinking Water
- Llama Manure to Clean Water in Bolivia
- July 2013 – Support water-stressed communities on Mandela Day
- Pressure Cooker on Steroids Turning Sewage into Energy and Water
- Turning Food Waste Into Water
- Innovative Design: How To Roll Your Water
- July 2013 – Do 67.67 today for International Mandela Day – 18 July
- New Building Could Turn Dubai Air Into Water
- Water Chip: Membrane Free, Low Cost Desalination Method
- Raising Public Acceptance for Recycled Sewage Water
- Positive 3rd Party Impact Assessment Report – SA Government approves Hippo roller as an appropriate technology for rural development
- Less Waste With New Water Bottle Filling Stations at Airports
- Chlorine Dispensers For Safe Drinking Water in Kenya
- Film Shows How Well Drilling Changed Whole Community in Zambia
- Young Girl From Philadelphia Sponsors Hippo Water Roller
- June 2013 – Overwhelming success at AIDF Washington DC – photo’s included
- Children’s Merry-go-round Powers Water Pump
- Clean Water for Woman and Children in Burma
- Clinton Family Involved in Myanmar Drinking Water Initiative
- New US Water Development Strategy Step in the Right Direction
- Matt Damon, Bono Going on Toilet Strike for Clean Water
- AIDF Exhibitors Promoting Water Technologies
- Professionals Recommending Hippo Water Roller
- May 2013 – Meet us in NY and Washington DC 19-29 May – AIDF & other events
- Ancient Water Discovered in Canadian Mine
- Affordable Solar Powered Water Pumps
- Can Flushing Your Toilet Add To Drinking Water Supply?
- May 2013 – Help to sponsor 67 rollers for 67 communities for Mandela Day
- Zimbabwe Now Also Harvesting Water From Air
- Silver Nanoparticles Used To Purify Drinking Water
- Using Underground Reservoirs For Water Storage
- WaterAid and Coca-Cola Africa Foundation Making Safe Drinking Water a Reality
- Will Recycled Toilet Water Save El Paso?
- One Hundred Hippo Rollers for Community in Limpopo
- Exciting New Technology: Solar Dish Desalinator
- Kgautswane, Limpopo: Collette Foundation, April 2013
- Israel’s New Water Filtration System
- High School Students Start Water the World Initiative
- Latest Israeli Technology to Purify Water
- New Cost Effective Water Treatment Possibility
- Missionaries’ Water Purification Systems Attracting Attention
- Virtual Water Expo – Singapore
- Ceramic Filters – Low Cost, Sustainable Water Treatment
- Giant “Fog Catchers” Provide Water in Desert
- Waterpod Resolving Water Problems for Nomads
- Wells in Africa-Innovation changing lives
- Water Health International – From Rural Villages to Bangalore
- P & G wants to save One Life per Hour
- March 2013 – Join the 67.67 Hippo Water Roller Challenge in Support of Mandela Day 2013
- Provide water to a child for 200 days – UNICEF and Facebook
- 67.67 Hippo Water Roller Challenge In Support of Mandela Day 2014
- RainCatcher – Fighting the Global Water Crisis
- Hippo in Texas Purifies Water from Oilfields
- Abundance of Rain, but not Drinking Water in parts of India
- The Most Powerful Way to Improve the World – Water Access
- Hippo rollers for Naledi Trust community (in Kroonstad, Free State, SA) sponsored by Bloemwater, March 2013
- How to get involved in World Water Day
- UNICEF TAP Project Turning Facebook into Fundraising Tool
- 100 Water Filtration Plants for Punjab
- Students Mimicking Nature: Novel Water Pipe System
- Students Mimicking Nature: Catching and Storing Water
- Students Mimicking Nature: Rainwater Collection System
- Water Management: What California can learn from Israel
- March 2013 – Recent publications featuring the Hippo water roller
- Amazing Technology: Billboard Creates Drinking Water
- Is damage caused by pollution in China reversible?
- The unhealthy cocktail of drugs in your drinking water.
- Wells closed in Monrovia – No alternatives
- February 2013 – Water for Thought: Life-Changing Design – Video
- The future of Water
- Water for Thought: Life-Changing Design – About the Exhibition
- Water: Some Good News from Israel
- Marapyane, Mpumalanga: Australian sponsor, December 2012
- People of Joladarashi, India desperate for potable water
- Special fabric to provide water in deserts
- More Gas Means More Water in Abu Dhabi
- Fracking with Mine Water
- Would you Drink Toilet Water?
- Water Cost: The Water-Energy Nexus
- World Energy Thirsty for More Water
- Robot to Extract Water from the Moon
- Engineering Students Develop Water System for Peruvian Village
- Popular water related news articles that we shared in 2012
- Colorado State University Ready for First Gray Water Flush
- Bottled water: Nestle planning to expand in China
- H2O Challenge: Drink water for two weeks and donate
- Is water sustainability possible in rural India?
- Next-generation membrane shows promise for water desalination
- Water Safety Worries in Beijing
- Water projects in Rural Sri Lanka led by woman
- Inexpensive ways to Treat Water
- How to recycle water
- Hippo Roller Handover in Marapyane, South Africa, December 2012
- Burning Water: No Candlelit baths for the Kline family
- Rural Peru Water Crisis
- Running Water raises levels of Happiness: Study
- International Water Summit in Abu Dhabi
- Growing Tomorrow – SABC TV show featuring the Hippo Water Roller
- New regulations for safe drinking water in America
- Cargill – Helping smallholder farmers to be more efficient
- Preventing and Monitoring Water Pollution in Asia
- Improving access to safe water in Uganda
- Three stages of water recycling
- South Africa’s World Class Tap Water
- Mobile Water Treatment in Asia Pacific
- Bottled water not always safe
- January 2013 – Help the Rooigrond community become more self-reliant
- Water Pasteurization Indicator saving fuel
- Matt Damon uses his celebrity to help provide water in Africa
- Fun with water: Making boiling water disappear
- Iron-rich tubewell water in Bangladesh can reduce the risk of iron deficiency
- 2012 NWRA Top Ten Water Issues
- Water shortage for farmers in Burma
- LifeStraw saving lives by purifying water
- The water-energy relationship
- Women’s Water Crisis
- Rainwater harvesting scheme for India
- December 2012 – Thank you for supporting us – can you help to sponsor the Rooigrond community?
- Researchers have devised a way to boil water using only sunlight
- Porous concrete acting as storm water management system
- How a faucet can transform a woman’s life – Water in Africa
- Anticipating future water needs
- Sodium hypochlorite dispensers for safe water in Peru
- Google gives $5 million grant to provide clean and sustainable water
- South Asia and the Global Water Crisis
- Save one life every hour by 2020 – P&G purifying drinking water
- 58,000 people in Fiji get clean, safe water
- Hippo Roller Mark II ?
- 2013 proclaimed by the UN as International Year on Water Cooperation
- Colombia: Social Innovation models to provide sustainable water and sanitation
- Tomato skin to purify drinking water?
- Desert beetle inspires scientist to create self-filling water bottle
- November 2012 – Rural community with only one water tap receives Hippo water rollers
- Transforming the air you breathe into water
- Rietfontein, Free State: Bloem Water, November 2012
- A Digital magazine for the Hippo roller
- New Distillation System: Simplest design with highest functionality.
- The Filthy Water of Seville, California
- Climate change not all bad news
- Facts about Water
- MANTRA Project Changing Sanitation In Rural India
- Strong Cellphone Signal needed for clean water
- Rural China’s Water Scarcity
- Using nature’s own water purifiers
- New book will change the way people think about the world’s longest river
- Water ATM’s for decentralized rural communities
- Drinking water safety
- Whiskey By-Product To Clean Drinking Water For Millions
- Thumbs-down to Durban toilet-to-tap water recycling proposal
- Playing Buddies game will bring clean drinking water to a developing country
- Hippo water roller receives valuable coverage at AidEx 2012
- October 2012 – Strong interest in the Hippo water roller at AidEx 2012
- International Day of Rural Women
- California Farmers stretch existing water supplies
- Do you know where your water comes from?
- Mobile water purification system for rural communities
- Video: No Water Today – a children’s school drama in rural South Africa
- Professional water operators working for free in Haiti
- Saving water – The perfect toilet
- Department of Rural Development & Land Reform – South Africa
- Uganda: Is it coffee with cream in it? No, it’s water.
- India’s Supreme Court ordered that schools be provided with toilets and drinking water
- Lillydale & Hlabekisa, Mpumalanga: Africa Foundation & HSBC, August 2012
- “No water today” – A school drama in rural South Africa
- PlayPumps bring water to rural African schools
- Futuristic-looking installation turns sea water into fresh drinking water via solar-powered stills
- African Women spend 2.6 billion hours a year providing water for their families
- Senior Australian rural citizens – Can they afford water?
- Are EU water projects- worth millions of Euros- really sustainable?
- Water purification technology: vapor compression distillation system runs on low levels of electricity.
- With salt, a car battery and some solar panels you could be making clean water
- Mobile app enables crowdsourced monitoring of local water sources
- California Drinking Water: Desalination No Panacea For State’s Woes
- World Food Programme in Tanzania use Hippo Water Rollers in school feeding projects
- Africa: A Quiet Small Water Revolution
- Asia’s Water Crisis Needs Urgent Fixing
- August 2012 – The Gaurdian UK: Hippo roller the first of 15 African innovations to transform the continent
- June 2012 – Hippo roller exhibited at the 2012 ANC Policy conference
- Indwe, Eastern Cape, SA: Anonymous USA Sponsor, April 2012
- May 2012 – Mobile Spaza rollers introduced to informal traders in the Eastern Cape
- Nkunzana, KwaZulu-Natal: Water Project of King Goodwill Zwelithini, April 2012
- April 2012 – Hippo roller handover by His Majesty King Goodwill Zwelithini
- Distribution of 350 Hippo rollers for the Department of Rural Development’s pilot project in the Eastern Cape
- March 2012 – News from Marseille, France – WWF6
- February 2012 – Hippo water roller selected for Village of Solutions at 6th World Water Forum in France
- Lusaka, Zambia: Cargill, December 2011
- CBS Philly – 3-On Your Side: Inexpensive Inventions
- Lusikisiki, Transkei, Eastern Cape, SA: Nedbank Foundation, November 2011
- Mothibastad, Kuruman, Northern Cape, SA: Nedbank Foundation, October 2011
- Kgautswane, Limpopo, SA: Collette Vacations, April 2011
- A visit to Maleng-Agok, South Sudan in 2010 to evaluate the use of Hippo rollers
- Muyexe Village, Giyani, Limpopo, SA: Vodacom Foundation, March 2011
- Mbashe District, Eastern Cape, SA: Nedbank Foundation, October 2010
- Green Machines: Hippo Roller
- Anonymous donation of 175 Hippo rollers arrives in Maleng-Agok, South Sudan
- Hippo Tears Video
- CNN International Report 1996
- Kenya, Mrs. Kezia Obama: Operation Hunger, 2009
- Burkina Faso: Safmarine Container Lines, 2009
- Safmarine – Herculas Day
- GOOD News: Hippo Rollers
- Design Indaba 10 Video of the Hippo Water Roller
- Project Leader Video – Hippo Roller
