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| Paseka Lesolang with the toilet he says can save a lot of water and lives. |
Lesolang is one of 25 young
entrepreneurs who have been accepted into the Institute after 306 applications
from 55 countries were received. He believes his toilet could save 288 billion
litres of water annually if installed in a million houses. His invention came
after realising the system installed in his township wastes water. “The toilet
system was a dual flush system. When you flush with the half flush for a given
period of time you flushed the whole tank and when you flushed with the full you
automatically flushed the whole tank. Therefore the objective was good but the implementation
wasn’t so good,” explains Paseka.
Paseka’s invention also includes
a few hygienic features ensuring that those using them don’t come into any
contact with germs found on the flushing handle. It eliminates at least 12 water-borne bacteria in a toilet pot with the
sanitiser included. These bacteria give birth to diseases like ecoli which is a
prerequisite for dihorea, influenza and the Norwalk virus found in food
poisoning. He says if used effectively the life span of a person infected with
HIV/ AIDS may be prolonged as they’ll be protected from disease they might get
in places with inadequate sanitation.
He says getting funding
for the project has been the biggest challenge as some politicians would ignore
his request and others would give him a run around and as a result he decided
to found his own Wagienience (Pty) Ltd trading as WHC, based at The Innovation
Hub in Pretoria. “Along the way I have acquired a partner and a team. My partner
is Armando Costa an inventor, who invented the digester which is complementary
to the product. In this way we can cater for both urban and rural areas.
Armando also invented a product in 1996 that can recover precious metals from
mine waste sites, his skills and experience are a great leverage to our
progress.”
Project Manager, Peter
Clarke, says he’ll try to assist Paseka achieve his dream. “Paseka is a fine
young man and I would like to assist him where I can, and see him become very
succesful. He is young and is taking this one step at a time. To his credit he
continues diligently, an admirable quality”, says Clarke.
Such inventions will
contribute in working towards a green economy, as water scarcity is still a
problem in many African countries including other parts of the world. The team
says the implementation phase will employ at least 480 people. To contribute to
Paseka's quest of raising the R80 000 before the 7th March 2012; you can do so
by depositing into the business bank account.
First National Bank
Account Name: Wagienience
Account Number:
62230796867
Branch Name: Ga- Rankuwa
Branch Code: 252945
Should you prefer via
credit card; you can do so on their web profile through this link: https://marketplace.unreasonableinstitute.org/project/whc/
Contact Paseka on his
personal email address: paseka57@gmail.com.
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