Engineering for Change

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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.

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Rob Goodier

Research Brief: A Microbial Fuel Cell That Can Filter Water

August 6, 2021

Researchers have developed a method for filtering the wastewater that powers a microbial electrochemical system, effectively adding water treatment...

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Rob Goodier

一个温和的方法使非殖民化的援助

May 13, 2021

Foreign aid organizations may be under pressure to “decolonize,” as the concept is known in the parlance of activists...

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Rob Goodier

How to Make a Biochar Water Filter

April 19, 2021

Charcoal has been a part of water treatment for at least 4000 years. Continuing the tradition, farmers in northern...

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Patrick Sours

Five Lessons Learned from the Implementation of Rainwater Harvesting Systems in Tanzania

March 16, 2021

Marwa Village is a predominantly Masai community of around 5000, located in Tanzania along the Pangani River. Most residents...

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Jonathan Truslove

How High Thresholds for Water Quality Can Hide Poor Service

March 10, 2021

There is a commonly cited statistic that “between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of the global population using an...

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Pallavi Kunwar

Three Barriers to Sustainability: Lessons from a Water Supply Project in Nepal

March 3, 2021

In an effort to learn from valuable experience, I studied a water treatment facility that stopped working 8-9 months...

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Evan Thomas

Profiles in Global Engineering: Five Questions with Dan Hollander

December 16, 2020

Engineering for Change invites Dr. Evan Thomas, Director of the Mortenson Center in Global Engineering at the University of...

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Thomas Da Jose

Focusing on Suppliers Rather than Customers Is Improving Water Services in the Philippines

November 16, 2020

Masy Consultants shifted our focus from educating customers to educating water districts and that has made the difference in...

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Evan Thomas

Profiles in Global Engineering: Five Questions with Petros Birhane

Engineering for Change invites Dr. Evan Thomas, Director of the Mortenson Center in Global Engineering at the University of...

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Anna Libey

Research Brief: Who Pays for Water?

October 23, 2020

In the United States, we take for granted that utilities can deliver affordable water at the turn of a...

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