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Description
The Village Water Ozonation System (VWOS) team’s core mission is to provide economically sustainable and culturally sensitive drinking water solutions for communities, to empower them with the ability to properly maintain their drinking water supply, and to transform people’s lives by decreasing the occurrences of waterborne diseases. Currently, the VWOS team is partnering with Friends in Action to implement two drinking water treatment systems this summer for the community living on Rama Cay, an island in Nicaragua. The wells on the island have a high salt content and are contaminated with bacteria which makes the water unsafe to drink; therefore, these two systems consist of a Reverse Osmosis unit, a UV light and other filters to ensure clean water. VWOS is also partnering with Forward Edge International to serve Mama Beth's Children's Home in Kijabe, Kenya. Mama Beth's serves approximately 250 children every day but their water source is heavily contaminated with bacteria. VWOS is designing a chlorination system that will provide safe water for the students with plans to implement it in the summer of 2023.
Funding for this work provided by The Collaboratory for Strategic Partnerships and Applied Research.
Publication Date
Spring 2022
Keywords
Messiah University, Messiah College, Engineer, community, service
Disciplines
Engineering
Recommended Citation
Galyen, Ruth C.; Bruner, Caleb L.; Allbee, Olivia R.; Binko, Nate; Gates, Benjamin R.; Kline, Seth M.; Stone, Sam B.; Knepper, Ray; and Lockwood, Michelle L., "Village Water Ozonation System" (2022). 2022 Collaboratory/Engineering Symposium. 2.
https://mosaic.messiah.edu/engr2022/2
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The work presented in this document has been provided solely for educational and edification purposes. All materials are composed by students of Messiah University and are not certified by any means. They do not constitute professional consultation and require the examination and evaluation by a certified engineer through any product development process. The contents documented are the produced work by the student design team but do not necessarily represent the as-built or as-assembled state of a complete and tested design; faculty, staff, and other professionals involved in our program may have augmented the student engineering work during implementation, which may not be recorded within this document.
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