November, 8 | MU PUBLIC HEALTH STUDENTS PARTNER WITH ENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERS
Missourian
Students in the MU public health master's program have partnered with Missouri University of Science and Technology's chapter of Engineers Without Borders to work on public health issues in Central America. [read more]
October, 25 | BILLINGS MAN HELPS BRING CLEAN WATER TO SALVADORANS
Billings Gazette
Patrick Murtagh knows why a rural community in southeastern El Salvador needed to access clean water: drinking their water makes you sick. That was confirmed by Murtagh during his first week in the country. The engineer traveled to the Central American country to assist in installing a water system near San Rafael Oriente. [read more]
October, 11 | ENGINEERS PROVIDE WATER, HOPE FOR GUATEMALAN VILLAGE
www.Army.Mil
Day after day, families in the small mountaintop village of Visibakvitz, Guatemala, about 6,000 feet above sea level, would travel on foot, downhill for about a mile to wash their clothes and dishes and retrieve drinking and cooking water from a shared, spring-fed water tank and washing station. Then, carrying children, dishes, heavy wet clothes and pails of water, they made their way back up the steep mountainside to their homes and begin the cycle again. [read more]
August, 17 | ENGINEERS BAND TOGETHER TO IMPROVE SANITATION, INFRASTRUCTURE ABROAD
SmartPlanet
There have been doctors and journalists. Now there are Engineers Without Borders who are committed to improving the everyday lives of people in developing countries. Presenting during the TEDxNASA innovation event during the NASA IT Summit in San Francisco on Wednesday, volunteer Ural Yal said that he became an engineer and a builder because he likes to "find solutions to practical problems." Thus, he found Engineers Without Borders to be a great outlet. [read more]
August, 2 | US COMPANIES RACE TO PROVIDE CLEAN WATER IN AFRICA
Voice of America
A race is on led by U.S companies and non-profits to provide clean water for the nearly one billion people in the world who lack this access, many of them living in Africa. Our correspondent has more on some of the different methods being pursued. [read more]
June, 19 | INNOVATION CAN HELP DEFEAT POVERTY
Denver Post
More than 1 billion people on Earth earn less than $1 a day. Two billion earn less than $2, and 5 billion earn less than $10 per day. Roughly 1.6 billion people have no access to electricity. Some 1.2 billion lack clean water. And 22,000 children die from preventable causes each day. Of the world's total population of 6.5 billion, 90 percent have little or no access to most of the products and services... [read more]
May, 10 | IN A DEVELOPING WORLD, SPECIAL NEEDS CALL FOR SPECIAL SOLUTIONS
PE Magazine
The world in which we live in is forcing a change to "today's engineer." It is not enough to be technically proficient at our craft. Today's engineer is require to understand society, culture, communities, and to encourage collaboration so that the solutions they design are appropriate and remain in existence well into the future... [read more]
April, 26 | SUNRISE ROTARY HELPS FUND WATER PROJECT FOR PERU VILLAGE
Estes Park Trail Gazette
A glass of clean drinking water seems like such a simple thing. But for the village of Llacamate, a community of 32 families sprawled across the steep mountainous gorges of the coastal foothills in northwestern Peru, clean water is but a dream. Families collect their drinking water from an open ditch that runs through the community. Animals walk through it and drink from it... [read more]
April, 21 | THE GIFT OF CLEAN WATER
Herald and News
The drinking water came from pits teeming with bacteria and E. coli that villagers dug themselves. The pump in the remote southwestern Tanzanian village broke and the villagers didn't have the knowledge or resources to fix it. Last summer, three Oregon Institute of Technology civil engineering students and three faculty members traveled to the village to install three new pumps, but more importantly, to teach villagers how to maintain them... [read more]
December, 29 | CAL POLY ENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERS RETURN FROM THAILAND
KSBY - San Luis Obispo | Santa Maria | Santa Barbara
Some Cal Poly students were far from home for the holidays, working to install a water filtration system in a remote village in Thailand. Eight people from the school's Engineers Without Borders program took the three-week trip. They left December 4 and landed back in the U.S. Tuesday night. Students say it is an experience that will last a lifetime... [read more]
December, 10 | ENGINEERING A SOLUTION
Tri-Village Magazine
Founded in 2002, Engineers Without Borders (EWB) is an organization that travels internationally to help improve the quality of life of developing nations that lack basic services like clean water, safe roads, bridges, wells and sanitation... [read more]
August, 27 | WATER: RESOURCE FOR LIFE
Los Angeles Times - Water Management
The community of San Lorenzo El Tejar, Guatemala only receives two hours of water a day. These two hours of water serve as a family's main source for drinking, bathing, and sanitation until their next daily ration. For this community, water is a very scarce and valuable commodity... [read more]
July, 12 | WORKING TO BRING 'HIPPOS', AND WATER, TO HAITI
CNN Tech
Like so many people, Grant Gibbs watched the news unfolding in Haiti and thought to himself that he wanted to help the people of the earthquake-ravaged nation. Unlike many, Gibbs is in a unique position to aid the Haitians in a big way. Gibbs, a South African, is the man behind the Hippo Water Roller, a 90-liter plastic barrel with a sturdy handle that can be rolled on its side from a river or lake back to a home desperately in need of water... [read more]
July, 12 | HEARTS, MINDS AND HANDS ENGINEER A BETTER WORLD
Texas Civil Engineer
Along with climate change, political changes, and changes in medicine, the new millennium also hatched one of the most important nonprofit humanitarian organizations to ever partner with local communities around the world... [read more]
March, 23 | EWB-USA AND HERE ON EARTH: RADIO WITHOUT BORDERS
Wisconsin Public Radio [audio]
February, 9 | ENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERS: UNITING A COMMUNITY - BRIDGING THE GAP IN HONDURAS
ASCE News
The call for this bridge came from a local pastor serving in the community of Armenta-Lirios, Honduras. On behalf of his community, this pastor sent out a plea for assistance to a local Non-Government Organization (NGO)... [read more]
January, 10 | ENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERS - USA
American Public Works Association - Reporter
Engineers Without Borders-USA (EWB-USA) is a nonprofit humanitarian organization established to support community-driven development programs worldwide through partnerships that design and implement sustainable engineering projects... [read more]
August, 6 | ENGINEERS BRING BETTER HEALTH TO RURAL COMMUNITIES
America.gov
Residents of Los Planes, Honduras, say that since their village gained access to clean water, they feel "born again." Los Planes is one of three Honduran villages that student volunteers from Northeastern University's chapter of Engineers Without Borders-USA have visited to lend their skills so residents could have potable water at home... [read more]
August, 5 | AVENUES FOR CHANGE
Magazine for Society of Women Engineers
Software engineer AnnMarie Spexet, P.E., describes herself as a Midwesterner whose life and career were forever changed by the conditions she witnessed on her first volunteer mission to bring fresh water to people overseas... [read more]
March, 10 | PROJECTS WITH A CONSCIENCE
Alaska Airlines Magazine
High in the Bolivian Andes, at an elevation approaching 10,000 feet, is the village of Yanayo Grande. Twenty-five indigenous families make their homes on the rocky, arid terrain. The villagers, who survive through subsistence farming and by herding sheep and goats, live in small, mud-brick huts with grass-thatched roofs... [read more]
March, 10 | AWARD OF EXCELLENCE
The Construction Weekly: Engineering News-Record
Bernard Amadei had a decision to make in 2002 after visiting a Costa Rica hydroelectric project on which he was asked to consult. The University of Colorado-Boulder civil engineering professor and geotechnical expert could have accepted the invitation and nicely supplemented his academic salary. But Amadei could not ignore the fact that the huge project would displace many locals from their homes and violate a basic engineering dictum, "Do no harm"... [read more]
January, 1 | STUDENT ENGINEERS BRING SOLAR ENERGY AND CLEAN WATER TO UGANDAN VILLAGE
MIT - Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Ddegeya, Uganda, a community of about 1,000 people spread over five square kilometers, relies on a single pond and one working well for water. The people there have no electricity and limited access to healthcare, because the local clinic faces the same constraints as the community. The Engineers Without Borders (EWB) MIT chapter has worked with the Engeye Health Clinic in Ddegeya since 2008... [read more]
