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]
During the summer of 2007 we set a goal that our partners would build 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 was financed by nine [Rotary] Clubs with the Somers Rotary Club taking the lead. 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. Our Fall project is taking on this challenge and we are designing an innovative water treatment plant with shallower tanks for [4 Comunidades|4 Comunidades CAD Design Drawings], 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
Our work is only possible through the generous contributions of our sponsors. We need funding to continue to develop the most efficient and cost effective drinking water treatment plants. Our implementation partners also need support to build these plants. Financial contributions can be made to support the technology development or the implementation 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] {info:title=Team Calendar}
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