BYU Students Develop Hand-Powered Drill For Finding Groundwater

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The Deseret Morning News (UT) (4/18, Larson) reports that a group of Brigham Young University engineering students "became an integral part of bringing clean water to Tanzania and other impoverished countries through their capstone project, developing an invention that could be the difference between life and death for thousands." With support from sponsors, the students "built a low cost, hand-powered drill capable of digging underground wells that only requires four people to operate." The Morning News notes, "That design - consisting of a large, crane-like beam, hand crank, and eight-sided game show-esque wheel - has the ability to bore 250 feet into the ground at 27 feet an hour, finding any available water source." Read more: http://bit.ly/g9tWdj Photo: M. Philbrick

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