AguaClara Five Year Plan
The AguaClara growth model is based on establishing partnerships with organizations that have expertise in the water supply sector and who have a strong structural engineering capacity. These partners take the responsibility for creating the structural engineering design for the AguaClara water treatment plants, for choosing the communities that meet the community prerequisites for appropriate sites, for training the plant operators, and for working with the communities.
We anticipate a very high demand for robust, energy efficient, water treatment technologies given the combination of a large unmet demand for safe drinking water, the increased demand due to population growth and urbanization, and the need to replacing aging infrastructure. The AguaClara team is committed to open source engineering as one tool to help disseminate the technology.
If our goal is to be able to provide the designs for
The Cornell AguaClara team will continue development of the automated design tool that will make it possible to deliver customized detailed designs to partner organizations.
2008
Task |
Location |
Start |
End |
|---|---|---|---|
Select next candidate communities for construction in Honduras |
Honduras |
2/2008 |
4/2008 |
Identify the funding mechanism for the next communities |
Honduras |
3/2008 |
6/2008 |
Build the water treatment plant at Tamara |
Honduras |
1/2008 |
4/2008 |
Train the Tamara plant operators |
Honduras |
5/2008 |
7/2008 |
Document Tamara plant performance |
Honduras |
5/2008 |
|
Honduras |
6/2008 |
6/2008 |
|
Hire Program Coordinator |
Cornell |
6/2008 |
6/2008 |
New Regional Partners assess potential community sites |
Honduras |
7/2008 |
1/2009 |
Mesoamerican Training Workshop |
Honduras |
9/2009 |
9/2009 |
Evaluate capital cost funding mechanisms and community financial capacity to absorb the capital costs
Fall: Begin Capacity building with new partners. Use additional workshops in Honduras coordinated by Agua para el Pueblo to train engineers and project supervisors from Mesoamerica. Mesoamerican partners will evaluate in-country communities to choose appropriate pilot sites.
Cornell AguaClara team provides detailed design documentation for the Mesoamerica pilot sites so that structural engineers in the partner organizations can create detailed structural designs.
2009
Mesoamerican partners begin community assessment processes in preparation for
New regional partners will be selected based on experience in the water supply sector, engineering and project management expertise, and the match between the AguaClara technology and the water treatment needs of their region.