While the excitement of the World Cup may be over, one group of creative thinkers still has soccer on the brain – and for a great cause. Jane Harrison and David Turnbull of Atopia Research have come up with PITCH: AFRICA, a soccer field (or pitch) that collects and filters water. Currently, almost one billion people on the Earth don’t have clean drinking water, and dirty water and a lack of basic sanitation cause 80% of all disease and kill more people than all forms of violence. This ingenious invention is both a fun place for communities to gather and a way for them to access clean water.
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As awesome an idea (kinda? i think?) as this is, I don’t quite understand why a soccer pitch is chosen as the front.
Why not instead choose something like a school? Or a hospital? Maybe it’s just me, but the idea of a water supply being exposed to long days of children stomping around and falling and bleeding or whatever seems a little unnecessary…
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