User Reactions

While I had no idea what to expect or how people would react to the product, I was pretty blown away by the positive response and enthusiasm we received.

Many women told me that they are the sole water collectors for their families, which means they often go to the water source as many as 10 times per day. Children, too, complained that collecting water often cut into the time they can spend on school work, and felt that our product could allow them to collect more water in less time. Some responses came from pretty unexpected places...some of our greatest supporters, for example, were elderly women, many of whom experienced chronic back, neck, and chest pain from collecting. Because of these health problems, old women said they sometimes collect less water than they need in a day and hated having to burden young women to collect for them

I was most surprised by the response Aqua Port received from men in the villages. Since water collection is mainly a task set aside for women and children, I expected most of our responses to come from them. However, men were equally eager to chime in, and talked about how they sometimes need to collect water for agricultural use. some suggested ways to modify Aqua Port so that it could be used for irrigation. While this was not the intention behind the original design, it would be great if we could come up with something that fits this need with the redesign.