Engineers Without Borders - USA, Denver » Water

Fort Collins Chapter Featured on 9NEWS

corey — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 22:36:51 +0000

The Ft. Collins Peru project was featured on 9NEWS June 9th. You can see the story on the 9NEWS website.

KBCO Loves EWB

corey — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 03:48:50 +0000

Here’s an EWB-centric KBCO Select-A-Set, created and submitted by our very own Zeke Houk, and played this past weekend. Nice work, Zeke!

The Denver Chapter of ‘Engineers Without Borders’ has projects in Africa and South America. In these developing places our new-found friends need clean water most of all. Fortunately our organization has men and women who do that kind of work every day.

The Engineers would like to hear:
Jackson Browne’s Lives in the Balance,
Johnny Clegg’s Scatterlings of Africa,
Take Me To the River by Talking Heads, and
With a Little Help From My Friends by The Beatles.

We have people working in Togo now, and another team on its way to Ecuador in April. After all, friends don’t let friends drink dirty water.

Projects Featured in RMWEF/AWWA Publication

corey — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 15:32:14 +0000

“Engineers Without Borders – USA (EWB-USA) is a non-profit humanitarian organization established to partner with developing communities worldwide in order to improve their inhabitant ’s quality of life. The EWB-USA Denver Chapter was founded in 2006 by a group of professionals dedicated to utilizing their skills to help these communities. Membership is open to engineers and non-engineers alike, and all skills are valued, from health care and construction to education and language…”

Kevin Greer wrote this article about our chapter and activities for a publication called “Rumbles” by the Rocky Mountain Water Environment Federation and Rocky Mountain Section of the American Waterworks Association. Download the full article here.

Water/Wastewater Civil Engineering Job with NPS

corey — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 15:22:24 +0000

There is a job vacancy announcement, open through March 10, 2008, for a civil engineering position with the National Park Service in the Intermountain Regional Office located in Denver, Colorado. The job requires design experience with an emphasis in small water and wastewater systems. Currently, most design is done in house. In the future, some work will be done through contracts with a/e firms. The Intermountain region provides support to 90 national parks located throughout Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas. Some of the parks are so small and remote, it’s like working for a third world country! The vacancy announcement is posted on www.usajobs.gov. Search for announcement number IMDE-08-127. If you have any questions about the position, you can contact Marina Connors at 303-969-2838 or marina_connors@nps.gov.

New Project Applications

corey — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:38:01 +0000

El Kilometro 71
Wastewater project in Honduras, presented by Chris Fahlin (FahlinCJ@cdm.com)

The project would include technical assistance and design for the engineers within San Pablo Sula for a wastewater pond which is presumed to contain wastewater from the town and the near by sugar factory. If approved, the first trip would include site investigation and project suggestions. No current or future general chapter funds will be allocated for this project. CDM has agreed to pay for their employees to travel for the assessment trip.

Ambalona Village
Madagascar Water Project, presented by Tom Rutkowski (trutkowski@golder.com)

The project would focus on the potable water system for the village of Ambalona and
would pair with the NGO Hope for Madagascar which has been started by woman in
Boulder originally from Madagascar. Options for the potable water system may include utilization of the nearby river (300m from village), seeps, and wells. Hope for Madagascar has committed to donating $1500. There is a $10,000 private foundation commitment as well. Other sources include Golder Associates and a Madagascar dinner fundraiser. If approved, no current or future general chapter funds will be allocated for this project.

Chapter Vote

A ballot vote took place to determine if the chapter approves the submittal of the 501
forms to EWB-USA. Both projects passed to continue to the next step of submitting 501 forms to EWB-USA.

Household Water Treatment and Storage (HWTS) Alternatives

corey — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 20:05:53 +0000

This is a report commissioned by the Wilson Center related to Household Water Treatment and Storage.

From the report: “The United Nations’ International Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation Decade (1981-1990) failed to achieve its goal of universal access to safe drinking water and sanitation by 1990 (World Health Organization [WHO], 2003). Even though service levels rose by more than 10 percent during the decade, 1.1 billion people still lacked access to improved water supplies, and 2.4 billion people were without adequate sanitation, in 1990 (WHO/UNICEF, 2000). Reasons cited for the decade’s failure include population growth, funding limitations, inadequate operation and maintenance, and continuation of a business as usual approach, drawing on traditional resources, policies, and technologies…”

Download the full report here. (Thanks to Chris Fahlin for providing this doc.)

EWB Story in the Rocky Mountain News

corey — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 15:55:49 +0000

NAMSALING, Ilam, Nepal - In the terraced tea fields of eastern Nepal, as mist rises through lush stands of bamboo, dozens of Hindu faithful climb the staggering 1,034 steps to a mountaintop shrine.Worshipers labor up the incline to make sacrificial offerings of goats and pigeons, or to give small coins and trinkets. The air is pungent with burning incense. Nepalese women in flowing pink and blue gowns sing morning prayers.

Frances Fierst, a member of Colorado-based Engineers Without Borders, is climbing, too, preparing to make a different kind of offering at the temple of the goddess Pathivara Mai…

(This excerpt if from an extensive writeup of the work by Bernard Amadei and the Boulder chapters in Nepal, done recently by the Rocky Mountain News.)

Read the full story here.