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AguaClara is a project in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Cornell University that is improving drinking water quality through innovative research, knowledge transfer, open source engineering and design of sustainable, replicable water treatment systems.
About AguaClara
AguaClara is a project in the school of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Cornell University that is improving drinking water quality through innovative research, knowledge transfer, open source engineering and design of sustainable, replicable water treatment systems. The sustainability of the AguaClara technology is two fold, including physical and social sustainability.
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Thus far, we have constructed one fully functioning water treatment plant in the town of Ojojona, Honduras. This plant is running and helping further AguaClara research for future plants via the data it returns. Currently, we are working on two projects. We are aiding the International National Rural Water Association (NRWA) in retrofitting an existing water treatment plant with the AguaClara technology in the town of Marcala, Honduras and our second plant is in the final design stages with construction in Tamara, Honduras to begin in January.
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(Taken from abstract for the Engineers for Sustainable World Conference written by: Gemma Kite, Tania Quesada, Daniel Menendez, Alissa Diminich, and Tamar Sharabi)
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News
2007 in Review
In the Press...
The AguaClara team designed a water treatment plant for the town of Tamara, Honduras during the Fall of 2007. The foundation stone for the Tamara, Honduras water treatment plant was official set in concrete on January 13, 2008. The water treatment plant will serve 3500 people and will incorporate a long list of design improvements. The $70,000 project is being financed by a dozen Rotary Clubs with the Northeast Westchester and Somers Rotary Clubs taking the lead.
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Through generous support from our sponsors, we have two AguaClara Engineers Abroad, John Erickson and Carol Serna, who are on assignment in Honduras for a full year starting in August, 2007.
In the Press...
From January 4 to 20, 2008, 18 members of the AguaClara team traveled to Honduras to work on the water treatment project. Anne Ju, a reporter for the Cornell Chronicle spent one of those weeks in Honduras covering the successes of the project. Three of her articles on AguaClara have appeared in the Cornell Chronicle. Click on "In the Press" for links to the articles as well as to Anne's blog.
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