The Biosand Filter is celebrating thirty years of providing clean drinking water to communities in the developing world. The idea of designing a water filtration system small enough to be installed in ...

Tara Webster is a microbial ecologist and environmental engineer. She is collaborating with Noah Fierer and Balaji Rajagopalan to improve our understanding of the microbial processes in biosand ...

A concrete tube, gravel and sand costing $25 help make a filter that can save 50,000 children a year Jalalabad: It's made of concrete, gravel and sand and costs just $25 (Dh92) to make, but the ...

CHAPEL HILL – A simple, affordable household filtration device can reduce the incidence of diarrhea, one of the leading causes of disease and death in developing countries, by up to 40 percent, ...

Slow sand filtration remains a cornerstone of sustainable water treatment, harnessing both physical and biological processes to improve water quality. Central to this method is the development of a ...

GLASSBORO — Rowan University’s chapter of Engineers Without Borders has started a fundraising drive seeking enough $75 donations from the university family and the South Jersey community to construct ...

Non-profit organization OHorizons recently created an innovative BioSand Filter that can deliver clean water at 1/10th of the cost of traditional methods. The filter hinges upon an open-source Wood ...

Ottawa, Canada - September 24, 2008 -Microbiologically contaminated water plagues approximately 1.1 billion people in rural and peri-urban populations in developing countries. Roughly 2.2 million ...

Water is said to be life. This is because everyone needs safe water for drinking, cooking, and simply for keeping him or herself clean on a daily basis. It is for this reason that the United Nations ...

The new filter weighs about 15 pounds, compared to about 300 pounds for the concrete filters. “We didn’t use the lightweight filters in our research,” Sobsey said, “but we’re happy to know companies ...