Village Source to Environment

Village Source to Environment

This subteam's primary goal is to design a distributed storage system for a village water supply. (Six teams from CEE 4540 Fall 2013 explored options. Background information is available) Our system will be based on Gufu Village in India. Solar-powered pumps will draw water from a well outside the village and pump it through a three-tiered system of pipes to each house. Lengths of tubing at each house will restrict the flow rate and ensure equity, so that no house receives significantly more water than any other house. We are currently in the process of sizing the PV array for the pumps and optimizing the sizes of pipes and tubing. We also need better cost data for cost optimization (Cost estimate for elevated AguaClara facility).

In future semesters, another goal of this team will be to evaluate options for handling both human waste and greywater at the household/village level. This could include anything from redesign of the toilet (use less or no water) to design of a greywater treatment system that will allow households to repurpose their wastewater safely. The context for this project could be a village in India or perhaps a coastal community in Indonesia.