The AguaClara team will be creating an AguaClara WIKI to enhance our ability to collaborate, generate, and document the knowledge and experience that we are creating.
AguaClara is a project in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Cornell University that is improving drinking water quality through innovative research, knowledge transfer, open source engineering and design of sustainable, replicable water treatment systems.
The AguaClara team has designed a water treatment plant for the town of Tamara Honduras and construction began in January 2008. The water treatment plant will serve 3500 people and will incorporate a long list of design improvements. The $70,000 project is being financed by a dozen Rotary Clubs with the Northeast Westchester and Somers Rotary Clubs taking the lead.
The AguaClara team is also providing design assistance for our partner, National Rural Water Association, as they retrofit a failed filter system in Marcala Honduras and convert it into an AguaClara water treatment plant. The Marcala plant will serve 10,000 people. The Marcala construction project is underway and is expected to finish in the late spring of 2008.
Through generous support from our sponsors, we have two AguaClara Engineers Abroad, John Erickson and Carol Serna, who are on assignment in Honduras for a full year starting in August, 2007.
This project has been generously sponsored by:
- The Sanjuan Fund
- Ken Brown '74 & Elizabeth Sanjuan
- Rotary Clubs
- Cornell University School of Civil & Environmental Engineering
- Cornell University College of Engineering
- Engineers for a Sustainable World
- National Rural Water Association
- EPA P3 Award (Student design competition for sustainability)
- Kaplan Family Distinguished Faculty Fellowships (CU Public Service)
Financial contributions can be made by sending checks
to Cornell University with a note designating the funds for the
AguaClara project.
Send checks to:
- AguaClara
- 220 Hollister Hall
- Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853
QUESTIONS? Contact our project advisor:
Monroe Weber-Shirk (Cornell University) Phone: (607) 255-8445
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