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- We have reached the point where AguaClara plants are being financed by other organizations and thus we no longer need funding for plant construction. We are committed to innovation and continual design improvements and we will need to test innovations at full scale. We will continue to collaborate with Agua Para el Pueblo in Honduras as the test platform for innovation. We will need ongoing funding to build AguaClara plants or to upgrade existing facilities to incorporate the latest innovations. We anticipate the need to test innovations at full scale at least once per year to maintain a high rate of knowledge generation. The annual budget for these full scale facilities is $50,000. In the very near term this will make it possible for AguaClara to test our invention of stacked rapid sand filters that are expected to make it possible to add filtration to AguaClara plants. We are also developing improved chemical dosing equipment, more efficient plate setters, and better hydraulic designs that all need to be tested at full scale.
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AguaClara Professional Organization ($??0,000)
As the number of partner organizations that are building AguaClara plants begins to grow it becomes imperative that these organizations create a network to share best practices and that there be an AguaClara Professional Organization (APO) that provides technical support and capacity building for implementation partners. We anticipate that the AguaClara Engineers will be incorporated into the APO. The APO will place AguaClara Engineers with partner organizations with a fee and financial structure that is yet to be determined. The APO will also work directly with the team at Cornell to provide documentation for design and implementation. The documentation will cover topics from initial meetings with communities to site design to operation manuals. The APO is currently in the concept phase and we see this as a critical part of our strategy to disseminate the technology.
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