AguaClara and Sustainability
Introduction: Free as in Gravity
The AguaClara team at Cornell University is conducting basic research to create robust technologies for drinking water treatment that will be both ecologically and economically sustainable. The AguaClara program applies an economy-of-scale to community development by incorporating the algorithms derived empirically in our labs into a free, downloadable design tool that allows users to receive customized plant designs from our servers at zero marginal cost to either of us. The plants we design are gravity-powered and appropriate for both resource-poor communities and for forward-thinking communities everywhere.
...