This year-long course is open to undergraduate and graduate students in all disciplines.  Working with a community in rural Honduras, the students develop an understanding of community needs for a safe drinking water supply, investigate conditions that affect the operation and sustainability of the system, visit the community over Winter Break 2017 to perform field investigations, and develop a holistic design to improve the community’s health through drinking-water improvements and education.  Water systems already have been constructed or are under construction in past partner communities of Las Queseras and Fatima, Honduras, and this year’s course is completing design now for the village of Cerro Verde.

In addition to engineering students, all disciplines are welcomed and the program particularly encourages students in Community Health, Political Science, Spanish language, Global Studies, Dietetics, and Education to participate.

Thanks to Ann-Perry Witmer of the College of Engineering for this information item.

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