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AguaClara showed me why I want to be an engineer and the impact that an engineering degree allows me to make. After I became involved with AguaClara my motivation across the board drastically increased, my GPA even jumped a full grade point. AguaClara technology is incredible and the program is ready to spread, although I am scheduled to graduate I plan on working with AguaClara this summer and hope to be a part of the program even after I am no longer at Cornell. It is amazing how far the program has come, how much potential it still has, and how many lives it will touch in the coming years.

Mickey Adelman's Journal

I felt very fortunate to return to Honduras with such a motivated group of students who are in it for all the right reasons. I had been in rural Yoro a few times before with Lafayette College's Engineers Without Borders, and I am glad I have the chance to continue working on sustainable development in Central America with another organization that puts engineering to work for public benefit. Impressive as it is to build functional municipal-scale water treatment plants in the Global South, the AguaClara solutions are even more impressive when seen in real life - and against the backdrop of the difficult problems they are helping to address. I am really thankful to be a part of this group and to work with such exceptional people: Monroe, his students, the AguaClara engineers, the Agua Para el Pueblo staff, and the plant operators and community water boards.

The trip turned into a two-way learning experience which I think is exactly what it is supposed to be. I was really pleased with the performance of the stacked filter demo, and we generated a lot of excitement about adding filtration to the AguaClara treatment train. And just as the operators and APP staff learned from us about how stacked filters worked, we learned from them about the important practical issues we will face in bringing them to full scale. I am definitely excited to keep working with these people in the future as this new technology comes to fruition.