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What were the main obstacles in development?
- A major challenge continues to be funding. It is possible to find donors who are willing to support bricks and mortar, but it is very difficult to find support for the research, innovation, and design work that is required to develop new high performing and sustainable technologies.
- The number of innovations required to create a sustainable technology was daunting.
- The project size is larger than for point of use water treatment and so the risk of failure during innovation were larger.
- The technology development required and continues to require many years of Research, Invention, Design, and full scale implementation with partner organizations. The scale of the program and the required partner network is beyond the capabilities of most university project teams. We were fortunate to have connections with a partner organization that was willing to take the risks to try new technologies and new approaches.
If the first experiments with water treatment technology were in the 1800's why has it taken so long for a sustainable form of water treatment to reach Central America?
I think there were many events that prevented the evolution of water treatment plants. Here is a list...
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