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AguaClara Concept Paper
Brief intro:
AguaClara is a project in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Cornell University that is improving drinking water quality through innovative research knowledge transfer and design of sustainable replicable water treatment systems. AguaClara water treatments plants are designed to treat turbid surface waters at the municipal scale without using any electricity or other complicated technologies. AguaClara plants have a one-time construction cost of approximately $20 per person and then a nominal monthly fee is needed to pay for the maintenance and supplies needed to keep the plant operational.
The problem:
Lack of safe drinking water is a major problem globally with over 2 Billion people lacking access to clean drinking water. Six million children a year, mostly under the age of five, die from lack of access to clean water and sanitation every year. These statistics have prompted the United Nations to make clean water a part of the Millennium Development Goals with the goal of reducing by half the number of people who have sustainable access to safe drinking water.
Sophisticated technologies exist to treat water in developed countries. Also, there have been numerous innovations for products to treat water in developing countries at the individual household level. However, there is an open market for municipal-scale treatment plants that work in developing countries. There are numerous advantages to working at the municipal level including economies of scale, fewer maintenance people to train, and treating all of the water that goes into a home not just the drinking water.
Our successes:
AguaClara has already proven to be successful at treating turbid surface water on the muncipal scale. Working with a local Honduran NGO, AguaClara has already designed two water treatment plants that are working effectively and providing safe clean water to the people of La 34 and Ojojona in Honduras. Two more plants are under construction in the towns of Marcala, and Tamara also in Honduras.
- Show that our plants are cheaper than alternatives.
- How else can we show that we have been successful?
Our goals:
Now that we have shown that our plants have been successful in Honduras we would like to expand to more municipalities in Honduras and worldwide.
- We have almost completed an automated design process that would...
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