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Engineers Without Borders Travel to Kenya To Improve a Village's Water Supply

09/03/2008

Members of the Engineers Without Borders (EWB) student chapter at the University of Massachusetts Amherst recently returned from a three-week trip to Kenya, where they worked to improve drinking water for a rural farming village.

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John Tobiason is building a weir in a stream to measure water flow. Tobiason is also showing some of the villagers how to measure and calculate the flow. Tom Chase is in the blue t-shirt next to him.
Team leader Christina Stauber (center) and team member Amanda Keyes (right) dance with the chairlady of the Namawanga Water Technical Committee at the beginning of a clean water workshop that EWB was doing at the Namawanga Primary School.
Two Namawanga villagers carry buckets of water home from water sources far from their households.

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