Bringing Water to Uganda

A group of Granite State engineers has begun working on a project to bring clean water to a village in Uganda 

This will be the first project for the newly formed Engineers Without Borders New Hampshire USA Professionals Chapter. The nonprofit humanitarian organization partners with communities to design and build sustainable engineering projects involving water supply, water treatment, construction, sanitation, energy, agriculture and other needs.

In November, the local engineers applied to work on the project, and last week they received word from the national nonprofit that it was accepted, said chapter president Heidi Lemieux, an engineer with Sanborn, Head & Associates Inc. in Concord.

Chapter members will meet in February to begin preparations for a pre-assessment trip, which they hope to make in early 2017, she said. In the meantime, they'll be working on fundraising to pay for the journey and communicating with the community in Uganda.

“They're having a lot of issues with water scarcity and lack of clean water in general,” Lemieux said Friday. 

The New Hampshire chapter will be working with a volunteer group in Gwase, Uganda, to coordinate the project.

“They're called the Busoga Volunteers for Community Development,” she said. “This organization works with the community and with us as a liaison so that we can be in direct communication with the community and have a better idea of what their goals and what their expectations are so we can work together and come up with the best solution for the community.”

That means creating a system that both provides clean water and is easy to use, Lemieux said

Source: Union Leader

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