1. Engineers without Frontiers
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?
EWF volunteers have
Global South needs
Technical Expertise
Time
Empowerment!
Access to Information

10. Design Tool Rural, 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!