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A well designed water treatment system should be easy to forget. If the design merges science and simplicity, people...
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.
A well designed water treatment system should be easy to forget. If the design merges science and simplicity, people...
Ten competitors in the Waves to Water Prize are advancing emerging technologies to innovate portable wave-powered desalination devices. The designs are as yet untested, the contest’s rules are focused,...
Researchers have developed a method for filtering the wastewater that powers a microbial electrochemical system, effectively adding water treatment to a power source. Dr. Zhen He, Director of the...
Foreign aid organizations may be under pressure to “decolonize,” as the concept is known in the parlance of activists and critics. But the route to meaningful change may be...
Charcoal has been a part of water treatment for at least 4000 years. Continuing the tradition, farmers in northern Thailand who are concerned about agricultural runoff in their drinking...
Marwa Village is a predominantly Masai community of around 5000, located in Tanzania along the Pangani River. Most residents travel three to six kilometers to the Pangani River daily...
There is a commonly cited statistic that “between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of the global population using an improved drinking water source has increased from 76% to 90%.”...
In an effort to learn from valuable experience, I studied a water treatment facility that stopped working 8-9 months...
Engineering for Change invites Dr. Evan Thomas, Director of the Mortenson Center in Global Engineering at the University of...
Masy Consultants shifted our focus from educating customers to educating water districts and that has made the difference in...
Engineering for Change invites Dr. Evan Thomas, Director of the Mortenson Center in Global Engineering at the University of...
In the United States, we take for granted that utilities can deliver affordable water at the turn of a...
Two engineering design teams that placed people at the center of their design process won the Innovate for Impact:...
Engineering for Change invites Dr. Evan Thomas, Director of the Mortenson Center in Global Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder,...
In these uncertain times, it can be difficult to determine what is true and what is not. This includes...
We are pleased to announce the eight finalists in the Innovate for Impact: Siemens Design Challenge. Our international panel...
Earlier this year, we withdrew from guest editing a special journal issue on failures because the publisher’s practices were...
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