Monday, February 16, 2015

2015 GH2DP-Engineers Without Borders Collaboration

VCU EWB students working with a 
biosand filter prototype 
We are very excited to be collaborating again with VCU's Engineers Without Borders (EWB) chapter for our upcoming outreach trip in June.

This year there are plans on trialing a new biosand filter that may ultimately provide clean drinking water to people in very remote regions of Honduras. The EWB group has created a prototype device and has plans to systematically study this over the next few months and on the ground in Honduras this upcoming June. The group also will re-trial a novel water catchment device first deployed in Honduras in June 2014.
EWB students Lucas Potter and Kristina Kelly deploying a
novel water catchment device in La Hicaca, Honduras, June 2014