Design Your Product for Manufacturability and High Quality
The transition from prototyping into production is a huge step for any hardware startup in any country. Given that...
Engineering for Change
Interest: Water
Nearly 1 billion people don’t have access to clean water, and the consequences are fatal. Diarrhea is one of the leading killers of children under the age of five. Fortunately, the solutions needed to access clean water can be affordable and reliable. With informed design and management, drawing water, transporting and purifying it are all possible for everyone worldwide.
Interest: Water
Design and Co-Creation Can Build Peace in War-Torn Colombian...
One underlying factor in Colombia’s civil war that is not often mentioned is infrastructure. There is a lack of access to basic services in rural Colombia, and it exacerbates...
Reflections on a Review of Studies on the Physical and Emoti...
Growing up in India, I was fortunate enough to have a piped supply of municipal water in my home. I was able to get a glass of water to...
Ancient Stone Canals May Help Modern Day Lima Weather Season...
Fourteen hundred years ago, a civilization called the Wari built a system of canals to bridge seasonal droughts in what is today’s Peruvian Andes. Rainwater diverted through the high-altitude...
Water Security will Take Precedence in Food Production as Po...
“Food production is the largest consumer of water, and also represents the largest unknown factor of future water use as the world’s population continues to balloon, and we face...
Harvesting Rainwater? Test for Arsenic
In communities around the world, rain may be one of the few safe options for drinking water. Far from piped water supplies, many families in rich and poor countries...
Devices for More Eggs, Fish and Drinking Water Win iShow USA
Eggs, fish and drinking water captured the expert judges’ imaginations at the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Innovation Showcase USA this year. Three devices that improve yields or purify water...
Research Brief: Large-Scale Stove and Water Filter Delivery Is Linked to Improved Children’s Health
A new large-scale trial of clean-burning rocket stoves and water filters in the poorest households in Western Province, Rwanda,...
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A Forgotten Public Health Crisis
They called it the Devil’s water, but we convinced them otherwise. United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and other international...
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A New Analysis of Freshwater Basin Data Finds 1.6b Suffering Water Scarcity
Mapping monthly water availability in basins that cross country borders found 1.6 billion people worldwide who live with severe...
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E4C’s Research Fellowship Is a Stepping Stone in a Mechanical Engineer’s Early Career
Megan Richardson is mechanical engineer early in her career who maneuvered into the global development technology field from the...
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The Circular Economy Can Solve Food and Water Problems in Rajasthan, Malawi and the World
I lived in the western Indian state of Rajasthan for most of 2006-07. To say that it quickly became...
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A New 12-Question Survey Measures the World’s Water Insecurity
A new set of survey questions may address a longstanding problem in the work to deliver clean water to...
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A Mix of Water Purification Technologies from Low-Tech Disaster Relief to Big Data
Though the amount of freshwater on Earth has remained more or less the same, a rapidly increasing global population...
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Promising Prototypes to Watch in 2019
The technologies that improve lives in the world’s underserved communities are born as prototypes that evolve through testing and...
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Developing Engineering Tools for Biogas and Water Distribution in Tanzania
I spent two years in a rural Tanzanian village learning how to collaborate to develop water distribution and biogas...
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Three Local Innovations Improving Lives in Rural Tanzania
I saw local innovation that solves problems with low-cost and inventive technologies at work in a rural Tanzanian village....
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