This product was designed by a social venture called Wello to help improve the efficiency of water transport and storage in developing countries. For people living in the rural parts of India, you have to walk long distances to find water, and once they find it, they fill up the buckets and carry them on their heads as they make the return trek. This is inefficient, dangerous, and counter-productive. Just to give you some perspective, women in these regions spend an average of 25 percent of their day collecting water for their families.
The Waterwheel uses a pushable high-quality plastic container to solve this problem. It has the potential to transport three to five times the amount of water that can be carried using traditional methods! Check out what it looks like:
We really ought to see more people developing products like these to help solve basic life problems like access to water.
We really ought to see more people developing products like these to help solve basic life problems like access to water.