Toilet invention to save 288 billion liters of water yearly
February 8, 2012
Founder and Managing Director of WHC (Water Hygiene Convenience) Paseka Lesolang,may be heading for the United States of America subject to him raising R80 000 to represent South Africa at The Third Annual Unreasonable Institute. As one of the 50 finalists chosen from 306 high impact entrepreneurs who applied from 55 countries. 23 year old Paseka from Ga-Rankuwa has invented a hygienic toilet system that can save at least 288 billion liters of water yearly if installed in a million houses.
A problem with the toilet systems that were installed in the neighborhood of Ga-Rankuwa gave birth to his invention,” 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 flush with the full you automatically flushed the whole tank. Therefore, the objective was good but the implementation wasn`t so good as a result water was wasted” said Paseka. After identifying the problem he researched other dual flush systems and saw that they had common problems and eventually decided to come up with a solution instead of complaining about it. He also added hygienic features to his new water saving solution, which make sure that an individual doesn`t have any contact with germs found on a flushing handle, while eliminating at least 12 water born bacteria in a toilet pot with the sanitizer used. These bacteria give birth to diseases including ecoli which is a prerequisite for dihorea , influenza, commonly known as flu and Norwalk virus found in food poisoning . If used effectively the life span of a person infected with HIV/ AIDS may be prolonged given the untimely deaths obliviously caused by water-borne bacteria due to inadequate sanitation.
Along the way Paseka has encountered some problems including, speaking to the wrong people as well as speaking to the right people who were available, but did not listen attentively or would tell him to come back after a certain period of time. Politics also took its toll, however these challenges did not stop him. Today he is the founder of 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" said Paseka.
Peter Clarke, the project manager, will assist Paseka to achieve his quest "Paseka is a fine young man and I would like to assist him where I can, and see him be very succesful. He is young and is taking this one step at a time. To his credit he continues diligently, an admirable quality”, said Peter.
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 implementation phase will employ at least 480 people. To contribute to Paseka's quest of raising the R80000 before the 7th March 2012; you can do so by depositing into the business bank account [B: 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/ . To make contact with Paseka to that regard, he is always available to do so through his personal email address; paseka57@gmail.com.
The Unreasonable Institute (www.unreasonableinstitute.org ) only permits 25 candidates who will be taught how to implement such highly beneficial projects internationally by leaders of industry that do so on a daily basis for their requtable products, provides the needed international networks, skills transfer and guaranteed audience of investors with the credibility to roll it out. As the only South African selected; his presence will indicate us as a trendsetter not a follower (as per popular believe). He will be putting South Africa on the Green Innovations Map, South Africa Alive with Possibilities.
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