Off-grid solar powered water purification and community development in Haiti's Artibonite valley, the heart of Haiti's cholera epidemic

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العنوان: Off-grid solar powered water purification and community development in Haiti's Artibonite valley, the heart of Haiti's cholera epidemic
المؤلفون: Marc Compere, Geoffrey Kain, Joseph Noto, Jonathan Prine, Rachel Hunt, Calli Brown
المصدر: GHTC
بيانات النشر: IEEE, 2017.
سنة النشر: 2017
مصطلحات موضوعية: Economic growth, 030505 public health, Sanitation, media_common.quotation_subject, 010501 environmental sciences, medicine.disease, 01 natural sciences, Cholera, Water resources, 03 medical and health sciences, Geography, Hygiene, General partnership, Sustainability, medicine, Solar powered, 0305 other medical science, Community development, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, media_common
الوصف: In May 2017, the Project Haiti team of two faculty and eleven students from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, Florida, working together with a professor and translator from the Universite d'Etat d'Haiti, designed and installed a solar-powered water purification system in the village of Drouin, Artibonite Department, Haiti. This region has been at the epicenter of the post-2010 cholera epidemic that has infected hundreds of thousands and killed many thousands. There has been no reliably safe drinking water in the region. In addition, community WASH (water, sanitation, and hygiene) training was provided for children attending the village school. A final component of the project was to launch a micro-business on site. The “Cool Blue Water” company is intended to provide clean, safe water for the village at minimal cost with proceeds directed towards education at the local school. The Haitian operators were empowered with ongoing maintenance and operation of the system, as well as the micro-business operations. Partnership with Haitians and the long-term partnering NGO (non-governmental organization) is a critical enabling aspect that improves sustainability of this community development effort.
DOI: 10.1109/ghtc.2017.8239344
URL الوصول: https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::f24a16d4a517aabafbaabe59c0ad689d
https://doi.org/10.1109/ghtc.2017.8239344
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قاعدة البيانات: OpenAIRE
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DOI:10.1109/ghtc.2017.8239344