Comments on: PITCH: AFRICA is a Soccer Field that Also Produces Clean Drinking Water!

By: paisha

paisha — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 06:25:25 +0000

The synoptic rainfall data for Cape Town (~19 inches) and Jo’burg (~28 inches) would suggest that your estimate of yield is considerably over-optimistic. Besides, the cost of the plasma (?) TV shown would probably easily finance a borehole and pump to provide considerably more – and reliably so – than the soccer pitch. Soccer is a contact sport and people bleed from time to time. Have you considered the risk of HIV since African rates of HIV are much higher than elsewhere ?

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By: CarlosFromPhilly

CarlosFromPhilly — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 14:41:55 +0000

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…