Open Source Engineering

Responding to the fact that current technologies for cleaning water are unavailable to the majority of those who still need clean, safe water.

Learning from the GNU open-source model for computer software and adapting that open source model for engineering design.

Open handed, shared freely, published rather than patented, empowering rather than controlling.

With the hope that by opening the gates of knowledge, fewer communities will resort to building untested technologies that all too often become the white elephants that litter the landscape in the Global South.