Conference Session

Service - Learning Projects

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul Boyle, Rice University; Brent Houchens, Rice University

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

, and should result in a system for fabrication by an existing company’s not-for-profitbranch, or by a newly formed not-for-profit firm. This work is in conjunction with the RiceBeyond Traditional Borders program3.Through Beyond Traditional Borders, the second generation Lab will be donated to schools inSwaziland, Haiti and Lesotho. The group that will be traveling to Swaziland and Lesotho iscurrently working on implementing their large scale water purifier in these two nations, andwould take along the Adaptive WaTER Lab as a demonstration tool on these trips. Additionally,if the patent for the Lab is granted, then funds generated from its sales will be used to producemore Labs to donate to developing nations.ConclusionsCurrent experience with