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Water Supply

Water Supply. Engineers without Frontiers. Overview: EWF Problem Solving. The Problem What can EWF bring to the table? What does the Global South need? A proposal for a contribution by EWF Status of the project Semester goals… Skills. Waiting for water. Water in Colomoncagua.

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Water Supply

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  1. Water Supply Engineers without Frontiers

  2. Overview: EWF Problem Solving • The Problem • What can EWF bring to the table? • What does the Global South need? • A proposal for a contribution by EWF • Status of the project • Semester goals… • Skills

  3. Waiting for water

  4. Water in Colomoncagua

  5. Water Supply and Sanitation The Gap…

  6. The Costs of Water-Related Diseases • About 4 billion cases of diarrhea and 2.2 million deaths annually: the equivalent of 20 jumbo jets crashing every day • Intestinal worms infect about 10 per cent of the population of the developing world • 6 million are blind from trachoma • 200 million people are affected with schistosomiasis

  7. What Can EWF Offer? • Technical Expertise • Time • Access to Information • Enthusiasm

  8. What does the Global South Need? • Capital? • Labor? • Technical Expertise? • Materials? • Research and Analysis

  9. What is the Intersection? Global South needs EWF volunteers have Technical Expertise Empowerment! Time Access to Information

  10. Design ToolRural, Gravity-Fed, Water Supply • Tool that takes site specific data and creates a design • Based on the design methods used by engineers

  11. Gravity Water Supply Design

  12. Objectives • Tool that takes site specific data and creates a design • Based on the design methods used by engineers • Create a spreadsheet to be used in designing rural water supply systems • Standard design • User friendly • Easily modified

  13. Project Status • Identified partner organizations • Water For People (US based) • Agua para el Pueblo (APP) (Honduran NGO) • Initial spreadsheet completed • Supply pipeline • Distribution tank

  14. Semester Goals • Add analysis of site survey data • Test, debug, and improve • Pipeline design • Tank design • Materials list • Translate to Spanish • Send to APP for testing and comments • Identify additional partner organizations

  15. Skills • Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulics • Spreadsheet and Visual Basic • Spanish • Willingness to learn!

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