Engineers Without Borders
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EWB-USA
• Founded in 2002 by Dr. Bernard Amadei (CU Prof.)
• EWB-USA has over 300 chapters around the nation
• Over 350 projects in 45 developing countries
• 180 University campuses with student chapters
• Why work with EWB
• Professional experience
• Recruitment
• Projects often considered comparable to internships
• Learn about new cultures, have new experiences, create
lasting friendships
Millennium Development Goals
Millennium Development Goals
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Eradicating extreme poverty and hunger,
Achieving universal primary education,
Promoting gender equality and empowering women,
Reducing child mortality rates,
Improving maternal health,
Combating HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases,
Ensuring environmental sustainability, and
Developing a global partnership for development.
Millennium Development Goals
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Eradicating extreme poverty and hunger,
Achieving universal primary education,
Promoting gender equality and empowering women,
Reducing child mortality rates,
Improving maternal health,
Combating HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases,
Ensuring environmental sustainability, and
Developing a global partnership for development.
Millennium Development Goals
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Eradicating extreme poverty and hunger,
Achieving universal primary education,
Promoting gender equality and empowering women,
Reducing child mortality rates,
Improving maternal health,
Combating HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases,
Ensuring environmental sustainability, and
Developing a global partnership for development.
The World of Unsafe Drinking Water
The Global Water Crisis
• 884 million people do not have access to safe drinking
water
• Every day, nearly 6,000 people die from water-related
illnesses, and the vast majority are children.
• Diarrhoeal disease alone amounts to an estimated
4.1% of the total DALY global burden of disease and is
responsible for the deaths of 1.8 million people every
year (WHO, 2004). It was estimated that 88% of that
burden is attributable to unsafe water supply, sanitation
and hygiene and is mostly concentrated on children in
developing countries.
What is water?
• Health
• Education
• Economy
• Development
• Equity
• Peace
Ilam District, Nepal
Ilam District, Nepal
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25% live below international poverty line of $1.25 per day
39% Infant Mortality Rate
30% children are able to attend school
27% improved sanitation facilities (anything not a hole in
the ground)
• 35% treatment of Diarrhea with oral rehydration salts
• 29% Comprehensive knowledge of HIV
Ilam, Nepal
•Tea and “cash crops” (cardamom,
ginger, potatoes)
• District Population of 280,000
•City population of 20,000
What EWB Caltch can do
• Spring Source Protection
• Health Survey
• Sustainability Education
• Teaching students about
drinking water
management
• Hydropower
• Improved Cooking stoves
• Bio-gas generation
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What can you do
Design Work
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Technical engineering work
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Construction management
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Operation and maintenance
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Fundraising
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Development and
implementation of operation
program
Grants, events, presentations
Education
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Sustainability of project
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Working in schools with children
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Health and Sanitation outreach
Community Partner - NCDC
• Namsaling Community Development Center
• Founded in 1984
• EWB has partnered with NCDC since EWB’s inception
Construction of the System
• Worked with a partner NGO– NCDC- and other local groups to
construct the system
• NCDC – Project managers
• EWB CalTech – System designers and water system experts
• Ilam Municipality, Development Fund, SIMEN – may provide
financial support for materials
Education and Sustainability in Local Schools
• Goal: Familiarize students and community with the relationship
between clean water, human health, and environmental integrity
• Promote understanding of technology, and why implementing
water treatment methods (such as spring source protection,
reed bed) are important for health, environment, community
• Work with students of all ages at various schools
• Activities included: hands-on interaction with Enviroscape™
educational model, field trips, water testing (local water sources,
reed bed at NCDC office), investigation of reed bed process at
NCDC office, at-home water treatment options, hand washing
General Expenses
$250 - Cost for one student to
stay with a Nepali family
for the summer
$300 - Domestic flight in Nepal
$1800 - International flight from
Colorado to Nepal
Questions?