The Mukombe

http://www.afrigadget.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/forum.susana.org-media-kunena-attachments-52-TheMukombe.pdf3a.jpg

The Mukombe – Zimbabwe’s tippy tapDr. Peter Morgan, winner of the 2013 Stockholm Water Prize and resident of Zimbabwe, recently shared the design of The Mukombe on the forum of the Sustainable Sanitation Alliance. The Mukombe is a hand washing device – a “tippy tap” as it is commonly known within the Water, Sanitation & Hygiene (WASH) scene – as it just requires a little tip to provide the user with just enough water to wash the hands. In water-arid areas, such a simple device can be essential to hygiene.Naturally occuring Mukombe “(The Mukombe) was first conceived by Dr Jim Watt when he worked in Zimbabwe as a Salvation Army doctor in Chiweshe in the late 1970′s. (…) This vegetable had a hard shell and could …


Read More: The Mukombe