Equipping Ships to Monitor Oceans: Five Questions for Matthe...
From satellites to research ships, data is collected on oceanic conditions around the world. If only it were gathered...
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
Can a bracelet craze clean our oceans?
4Ocean has put an artistic spin on a straightforward solution to plastic pollution in the oceans. Their solution is simple: Beach and coastal water cleanups. Their innovation is in...
How to make a trawl to track local marine plastic pollution
By Tainá Guarda and Barent Roth The...
Floating sea bags are set to scour plastic waste from the oc...
Artificial coastlines crafted from floating sea bags have emerged as a plan for cleaning up plastic trash in the ocean. Over the last few decades, millions of tons of plastic have...
Charitable Foundations Have a Unique Opportunity to Change t...
With a few changes, charitable foundations have the potential to make deep improvements in the water, sanitation and hygiene sector in developing countries. Financially, foundations contribute little to the...
Data Scientists Pinpoint Sources of Lead Contamination to So...
The Swiss mechanical engineer Lt. Eduard Rubin invented the copper-jacketed rifle bullet in 1882, right about the time that lead pipes had come under scrutiny for poisoning drinking water...
Promising Prototypes to Watch in 2017
Prototypes are pushing the field of global development technology forward as they evolve in workshops, universities, laboratories and even garages. We asked our international network of experts in engineering...
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UNICEF Publishes a Guidance Note on Professional Water Well Drilling
Africa has witnessed a tremendous increase in drilled water wells, or boreholes, over the last 20 years. Groundwater provides...
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Our Most Popular Webinars of the Year, from Behavior Change to 3D Printing in Disasters
In a year that started with a webinar on Food Security and ended with Electronic Medical Records in Low-Resource Settings, we have seen...
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10 mThings Changing Lives in Developing Countries
Mobile applications are transforming the livelihoods of millions of people around the world, including in low-income settings and rural...
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A New WASH Working Group Targets an Overlooked Hazard: Chemical Toxins in Drinking Water
In a departure from the WASH community’s traditional focus on microbial contamination in drinking water, the new WASH-Toxics Working Group takes aim at...
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Changing the Hydrophilanthropy Paradigm (How Well-Intentioned Engineers Can Get It Wrong)
Say you wanted to put in a well in a small community that needed water, in an economically depressed...
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Potter’s guide to successful local manufacture
The caretakers of the ceramic pot water filter design are committed to supporting local manufacturing facilities and businesses, rather...
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How to make a wooden mold for biosand water filters
Household biosand water filters are proven effective and long lasting. Traditionally, the filters are built from concrete poured into...
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Five Questions with Shashi Buluswar and Subarna Mitra, Institute for Transformative Technologies
Two years ago, a small team from the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab in Berkeley, Calif. released an enormous volume...
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Improving the Professionalism of Drilled Water Wells in Africa – Want to Join Us?
When I took on a consulting job to set up and lead a new theme for the Rural Water...
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How the Internet of Things Is Improving Lives and Livelihoods in Developing Countries
Wirelessly connected sensors, actuators and other hardware have already changed global development work, and signs point to bigger changes...
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