Design and analysis of small scale systems that are appropriate for providing safe drinking water to the 1 billion underserved. Students will work in teams to design sustainable supply and treatment systems. This will require an understanding of the major threats to public health as well as the constraints of implementing technologies in the Global South.
One of my goals in this course is to encourage creative thinking about solutions to the enormous challenge of providing everyone on the planet with safe drinking water. We will challenge the myth that this task can be accomplished by applying existing technologies and we will identify major technology gaps where better solutions are needed. My thesis is that engineers are needed to challenge existing assumptions and to create and document new sustainable solutions.
The teaching assistant for the course is Tania Quesada. Her office hours are M,W from 6-8 pm in the AguaClara lab.