Yanko Design

Water Clever Concept!

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Obviously water pumps should have see-saws on them! Countries in parts of Africa still rely on the bore-well system to pump drinking water out of the ground. I’ve tried my hand on these pumps and they’re no easy task. They require a good deal of continuous forceful pumping, and I can only imagine how difficult it must be to do this daily after having to walk long distances between the home and the community bore-well.

The Seesaw Well allows you to offload the pumping activity to children by disguising in the avatar of a seesaw. The upward and downward movement allows the well to pump up water, hands-free, while keeping the kids entertained!

The Seesaw Well is a winner of the iF Design Talent Award for the year 2017.

Designer: XueFei Liu

Sarang Sheth
Sarang is the co-editor in chief of Yanko Design. He is a former industrial designer at a Bangalore-based multidisciplinary design studio, working in areas including appliances, FMCG, packaging, technology, luxury, etc. Sarang has written about design and technology for over a decade and has been a jury member on international design awards. He occasionally works on tech concepts featured on Forbes, The Verge, Hypebeast, Digital Trends, SlashGear, Tom's Guide, LetsGoDigital, and Unbox Therapy. Sarang graduated from MIT Institute of Design, Pune.
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