h4. Team members: check out the [upcoming events and opportunities|Events]
h1. Mission Statement
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AguaClara is a project in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Cornell University that is improving drinking water quality through [innovative|Innovations] [research], knowledge transfer, [open source engineering] and [design] of sustainable, replicable water treatment systems.
The AguaClara project continues [Ezra Cornell's vision|http://www.engineering.cornell.edu/explore/tradition-of-innovation/index.cfm]: his sense of invention, his focus on the future, his belief in hands-on learning, his dream of a well-rounded education available to anyone.
h4. Read more [about AguaClara] in our [concept paper].
h4. Learn more about the [AguaClara technology|Technology Overview].
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h1. News
[2007 in Review]
[In the Press...|In the Press]
The AguaClara team designed
During the summer of 2007 we set a watergoal treatmentthat plantour forpartners thewould townbuild 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. AguaClara water treatment plants to serve 10,000 people. Since then International Rural Water Association, [IRWA], built a plant that is serving 5400 people in [Marcala] and Agua Para el Pueblo, [APP], built a plant that is serving 3500 in [Tamara]. The $70,000 project is beingwas financed by nine [Rotary] Clubs with the Somers Rotary Club taking the lead.
In December 2007 the AguaClara team completed the design of a water treatment plant for the town of Tamara Honduras with the goal of beginning construction in January 2008. The water treatment plant will serve 3500 people and will incorporate a long list of design improvements.
The AguaClara team is also providing design assistance for our partner, National Rural Water Association, as they retrofit a failed filter system in [Marcala] Honduras and convert it into an AguaClara water treatment plant. The Marcala plant will serve 5,400 people. The Marcala construction project is underway and is expected to finish in the late spring of 2008. We succeeded in keepings costs below $20/person, a price that is lower than any other municipal scale water treatment technologies. In June I had the pleasure of participating in the inauguration ceremony for Tamara. Several hundred people came for the festivities. My favorite ceremony was a toast and a good drink of water made by the plant.
APP has requested that we further refine our design to create an ultra-low cost municipal water treatment plant. We are taking on this challenge and are designing an innovative water treatment plant with shallower tanks for a community near Tegucigalpa. It will cost approximately $50,000 to build this full scale pilot facility. Our goal is to start construction in September with completion by January. We are asking you to consider investing in this technology so that we can design water treatment plants that are so economical that many more poor communities will be able to afford the plants.
Through generous support from the [Sanjuan Fund], 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.
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. Six of her articles on AguaClara have appeared in the [Cornell Chronicle|http://web.search.cornell.edu/search?entqr=0&access=p&sort=date%3AD%3AL%3Ad1&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=UTF-8&client=default_frontend&q=aguaclara&sitesearch=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.news.cornell.edu&ud=1&site=default_collection&oe=UTF-8&proxystylesheet=default_frontend&ip=132.236.94.39&sort=date%3AD%3AS%3Ad1].
h1. Contribute to Our Project
Financial contributions can be made by sending checks to Cornell University with a note designating the funds for the AguaClara project.
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*Send checks to:*
h5. AguaClara
h5. 220 Hollister Hall
h5. Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853
*QUESTIONS?* Contact our project advisor:
Monroe Weber-Shirk (Cornell University) Phone: (607) 255-8445
h1. Student Teams
[Spring 2008 Roster|Team Members Spring 2008]
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Update the Google Calendar with team events. Check the [team calendar|Calendar] (OFTEN\!\!\!) for updates on meetings and events that the various teams are having.
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