Six EPA P3 Awards Won by WaterCAMPWS Students in Past Three Years
This year, WaterCAMPWS students on two UIUC engineering student teams won the Environmental Protection Agency's 2010 P3: People, Prosperity and the Planet Student Design Competition for Sustainability. With these two awards, WaterCAMPWS students have received a total of six EPA P3 awards over the past three years for a total of $256,000. Several on-going and new projects are supported, in part, by these grants:
rnrn- In India, students have completed Phase I and are working Phase II of a project that seeks to create and sustainably engage an innovative system for bioremediation of agricultural chemicals.
rn- In Nigeria, multi-phase, multi-year water development program conducted in collaboration with public health students from Ebonyi State University, addresses issues of safe, sustainable water supply as well as education for residents of the rural village of Adu Achi.
rn- At the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, students have undertaken work aimed at developing an inexpensive, easy-to-use technology for removing arsenic and uranium from the groundwater.
rn- In Guatemala, students are implementing community-constructed concrete biosand filters that incorporate the addition of iron oxides to the sand media in order to remove viruses from the drinking water. The water system is built with local materials and designed so that the residents of Socorro will not have to rely on outside help for its operation.
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Article posted by Maureen Tan
on Monday May 24th, 2010.
