The main goal of our team is to raise awareness on the importance of wastewater treatment in Honduras and ensure that AguaClara drinking water treatments are properly removing diarrheal pathogens. Richardson Lab at Cornell University has been working on this topic in depth using membrane filter and openArray DNA analysis technology. Under Professor Richardson's supervision, we are going to develop a viable method to sample and preserve pathogens in the field so that the sample pathogens can be shipped to the lab to be analyzed.