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.

The AguaClara team is committed to creating open source design tools that will make it possible for engineers in the Global South to build municipal scale drinking water treatment plants. This engineering design service soon will be available on our website. We are committed to providing this design service free of charge. It is our hope that implementation partners will be able to use our design service to leverage increased funding for improving drinking water infrastructure in the Global South.