Installation Sept 2025

Clean Water and Smiles at Emfuleni Primary School New Playpump Installation! In September 2025, a new chapter began for Emfuleni Primary School in the lush Hazyview area of Mpumalanga Province. Thanks to the generosity of Lawrence’s Well Appeal, the school received a brand-new PlayPump® water system — bringing both clean water and joyful play to […]

Maintenance Trip

Maintenance Trips Site LP 007 in Limpopo Province, Seshigo Primary School. This site was originally installed on 2000, so is now over 25 years old and still supplying clean water to the school. The school has approximately 400 pupils and staff. This school has been maintained in June 2025 with funds from Colgate-Palmolive. They have […]

Maintenance of Lesotho PlayPumps 2021

We recently visited Lesotho and maintained 22 of our PlayPumps there, thanks to generous donations from donors. These PlayPumps were installed in 2009 and 2010 and are still needed by the local communities because of the lack of reliable running water.   When the team arrived the children were nearly always playing on the PlayPumps. […]

New PlayPumps & Maintenance 2020

COVID 19 has made it even more imperative that we install new PlayPumps and maintain our existing 900+ PlayPumps. Just before lockdown we maintained 8 PlayPumps in Limpopo, North West and Mpumalanga, so the learners have water to drink, and most importantly water to wash hands when schools re-open. During May and June we visited […]

Came just in time

D L Jansen Primary School wrote the following letter of thanks to their donor, Sumitomo Corporation “The above mentioned school is situated in a small rural town about 60km from Kimberley, the capital city of the Northern Cape Province. It is a poor community that mostly rely on jobs on the farms and government grants. […]

Maintenance and installations

We recently installed a PlayPump at Ntsoanatsatsi Edu Care Trust in the Free State  The Trust teaches adults to grown vegetables, but also looks after 300 vunerable children. Ruth Butcher, from Mama’s Allicance, who bought the Trust’s water problems to our attention, has told us that after the PlayPump was installed that “the children cannot […]

Three new PlayPumps installed

We installed a PlayPump at Ntsoanatsatsi Educare Trust in the Free State. They originally started to help uneducated adults to learn to grow vegetables and start their own sustainable vegetable gardens, but now they also look after about 300 children and 15 educators. They needed water for the children to drink, so they can cook […]

Visit to Day Care Center

We visited Vumatsepanang Day Care Center near Soshunguve.  The PlayPump was installed in 2001 and is still used by the Center and the local community living close by.  The owner, Pat, mentions in the video that the children no longer get sick, thanks to the PlayPump, whereas before, they often were sick from the bad […]

Makgatlhanong Primary School

The principal of Magkatlhanong Primary School wrote to us on 1 March 2019 saying A BIG THANK YOU AND A LETTER OF APPRECIATION This is to confirm that Roundabout Water Solutions is our only source of water to the 620 learners of Makgatlhanong Primary School.  The learners of this school rely on a daily basis […]

2018 report

ROUNDABOUT WATER SOLUTIONS REPORT 2018 In 2018 Roundabout Water Solutions installed 18 new PlayPumps at rural schools in South Africa. The majority of these schools reported that their schools had been without reliable water for months, if not years. They could not afford to mend their broken pumps or pay for the electricity and they […]