The instructions for the wooden mold that would eventually become a concrete BioSand Filter were 60 pages long and full of diagrams and charts. They were complex and, at times, a bit unclear. The ...

CHILLICOTHE – The water that trickles from the plastic drum’s spigot looks as if it flowed from a kitchen tap, an impressive feat considering it began as brownish pond water just minutes earlier. This ...

Diarrhoeal diseases are a global public health burden, killing 1.8 million people annually. Diarrhoea disproportionately affects children and those in poverty. Most diarrhoeal cases can be prevented ...

Non-profit organization OHorizons recently created an innovative BioSand Filter that can deliver clean water at 1/10th of the cost of traditional methods. The filter hinges upon an open-source Wood ...

Slow sand filtration remains a cornerstone of sustainable water treatment, harnessing both physical and biological processes to improve water quality. Central to this method is the development of a ...

Tara Webster is a microbial ecologist and environmental engineer. She is collaborating with Noah Fierer and Balaji Rajagopalan to improve our understanding of the microbial processes in biosand ...

Engineers Without Borders (EWB), a Drexel University student organization, recently returned from a trip to Miramar, a residential village in El Salvador, to further a humanitarian project that began ...

Dow Chemical Co. Sustainability Corps' member Victor Atiemo-Obeng recently helped install water filters in Siaya, Kenya and regions of Ghana, Africa. Atiemo-Obeng, a Dow retiree, along with the ...

A pilot water safety plan (WSP) was developed for a rural terai (plain) community of Chitwan District, Nepal, where drinking water is from point sources (hand-dug wells or bore wells). Many families ...