Video: Engineers Week: Clean Water, Phase II (Namawanga, Western Kenya)
Video: Engineers Week: Clean Water, Phase II (Namawanga, Western Kenya)
The 3,000 residents of Namawanga village in western Kenya had to travel long distances and spend a lot of time searching for water. Students from the University of Massachusetts sampled the water for disease bearing bacteria and educated the community about water while looking for new sources of clean water.
Engineers Week 2012 - February 19-25, 2012
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