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The AguaClara Advantage
Our municipal water treatment plants use flocculation and sedimentation to treat turbid surface waters in a clever, simple and affordable way. Our plants are gravity powered and built on site using local materials.
Our Research
AguaClara is engaged in several areas of research in order to understand how best to improve the efficiency of our water treatment technology. One ongoing area of research is the investigation of flocculation effectiveness through studying the hydrodynamics of flock formation and beak-up in the laboratory. A pilot plant located at Cornell’s Water Filtration Plant is used to test the performance of various prototype designs. In addition to testing and experimentation, AguaClara uses computational fluid dynamic software to understand the flow conditions occurring inside our hydraulic flocculators to ultimately improve the design.

Open Source Engineering
AguaClara is dedicated to providing open access to all of our design work using web based design tools. This commitment to open source engineering will hopefully make it possible for engineers around the world to build water treatment plants similar to ours. The idea is to have an automated, web-based design tool that will enable partner organizations to obtain detailed design documentation including 3-D CAD drawings of an AguaClara plant. Therefore, engineers around the world with internet access can rapidly design a water treatment plant given a flow rate and a few additional parameters based on our design documents.

EMPOWERING
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TECHNOLOGY

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http://aguaclara.cee.cornell.edu

About AguaClara
AguaClara is a project in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Cornell University that is improving drinking water quality through innovative research, knowledge transfer, open source engineering and design of sustainable, replicable water treatment systems.
The Challenge
To create safe drinking water for more than 1 billion people who do not have access to safe drinking water.
One of the top causes of child mortality worldwide is water-borne diseases. Approximately 5,000 children die every day from diarrhea acquired from unsafe drinking water.

Our Progress
To date, there are four operating AguaClara water treatment plants in Honduras. With our designs, partner organizations such as Agua Para el Pueblo have been able to build water treatment plants from local materials and labor. The four plants provide safe drinking water to over 13,000 people.
Expansion
AguaClara continues to pursue more opportunities to bring clean drinking water to Honduras and other areas of Latin America. By integrating field and laboratory research we are developing new technologies and expanding the knowledge base for creating a sustainable future.

Donating to AguaClara
The AguaClara team relies on grants and donations from individuals, corporations, foundations and the support of Cornell University to keep our project going.
Donations are needed for all aspects of the process including:
Funds to build water treatment plants in Honduras, support for Cornell interns in Honduras monitoring and developing the plants, and research and development of new designs on the Cornell campus and in the AguaClara laboratory.
As a part of Cornell University, which is a non-profit organization, all donations are tax deductible.
Please send checks to:
AguaClara
220 Hollister Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
QUESTIONS? Contact our project advisor: Monroe Weber-Shirk (Cornell University) Phone: (607) 255-8445

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