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Water Challenge
To win £ 11,000,000 in the lottery, it will cost you £ 2:00 and your chances are vanishingly small. To win £ 10,000,000 to help resolve your chosen problem will cost you nothing except passionate involvement and some of your time. Don’t waste your cash on the lottery – choose which problem needs solving and suggest how it might be accomplished. Why not give it a go ?
My CV
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Education:
Secondary school and university in Cape Town, South Africa
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Qualifications:
BSc Civil Eng., FICE, FRSTMH
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Work History:
Central-southern Africa; near east; middle east; far east
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Current Job:
Retired. I was a watsan engineer with UNICEF, then 15 years in disaster response
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Being a humanitarian worker is increasingly feeling like putting sticking plasters on deep cuts – it might stem the flow a little but is no long-term solution.
We need the thinking of how we can produce quite large quantities of domestic water supplies with the minimum of energy – and use the Longitude Prize money (and other resources) to fund start-up groups to develop the method even further. Perhaps another prize should be offered to the start-up groups who make the most innovative solutions.
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What I'd do with the prize money:
Funding start-up groups to compete with each other for the best solution
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