Monroe Weber-Shirk, senior lecturer in civil and environmental engineering at
Cornell and director of AguaClara, with Cornell students Akta Patel and Yoon
Young Choi, at an AguaClara project in Agalteca, Honduras, work on the AguaClara chemical dose controller. “This device meters the coagulant into the water
in the water treatment plant,” says Weber-Shirk. “It eliminates the need for
chemical pumps and makes it easy for the plant operator to set the chemical
dose directly without doing any calculations.” AguaClara is a multi-disciplinary
program at Cornell University that designs sustainable water treatment systems
ideal for resource-poor communities.
CornellCast Video
The AguaClara Project
Travel to Honduras via this narrated slideshow and learn about Cornell students’ effort to help provide sources of clean water. Cornell’s AguaClara students design water treatment plants for rural communities in Honduras with guidance from Monroe Weber-Shirk, senior lecturer in civil and environmental engineering, who heads the AguaClara project.
The AguaClara Project Team is a group of Cornell students, mostly civil and environmental engineering majors, who design water treatment plants for rural communities in Honduras.
Their faculty leader, Monroe Weber-Shirk, accompanies a group of AguaClara students to the Central American country every year to tour existing and potential water plant sites, as well as interact with the people they are working with.
This year's AguaClara team visited Honduras during the end of winter break, Jan. 4-20. On the second week of the trip, Cornell Chronicle writer Anne Ju and University Photographer Lindsay France joined the group in Honduras to document their travels.
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