Three ASU students started the nonprofit 33 Buckets, an organization that focuses on tackling clean water scarcity, as a school project in 2010. The group has worked with local people to develop engineering-based solutions for projects in the Dominican Republic, Bangladesh, and Peru.
Since 2015, the company has collaborated with 15 communities to enhance water accessibility and advance sanitation. The nonprofit's work has included developing and distributing residential filters as well as community-wide and school-based filtration systems.
Our goal, according to the nonprofit's executive director and alumnus of Arizona State University, Daniel Hoop, is to empower communities by enhancing and facilitating their ability to obtain long-term access to clean water.
ASU students Mark Huerta, who studied bioengineering and engineering education, Swaroon Sridhar, who studied bioengineering, and Paul Strong, who studied mechanical engineering founded 33 Buckets as an engineering project for the university's Engineering Projects in Community Service program.
Teams of students work together as part of the entrepreneurship curriculum EPICS to find engineering-based solutions for charities, organizations, and educational institutions.
To give students practical experience so they can benefit the community and develop their resumes, we work on projects with community partners, usually organizations, according to EPICS Director Jared Schoepf.
By 2012, the group had fully completed their filter, and by 2014, 33 Buckets had received money to fly to Bangladesh and put the filters in place, according to Hoop.
Following that, a limited number of EPICS team members decided to carry on with the project in Peru and the Dominican Republic. In 2017, 33 Buckets officially became a nonprofit organization, and it is currently focusing its efforts on figuring out the best ways to get Peru access to safe drinking water.
According to water.org, 16 million of Peru's 32 million residents do not have access to a dependable water supply that is safely maintained.
About the Peru project, Schoepf noted, "Our students were designing a chlorine system and a chlorine monitoring system to ensure they're injecting the necessary quantity of chlorine to disinfect the water.”
Students from ASU have kept up their strong collaboration with 33 Buckets, with several of them serving as interns.
Some students, like junior chemical engineering major Adam Westmoreland, have the chance to work hands-on.
The crew was charged with creating a prototype for a chlorine water treatment system that may take the place of the existing system in Peru, according to Westmoreland.
He explained that it was crucial to creating a prototype for this system because the current one in the region the students were working in—the Cusco Region—did not routinely cleanse the water, which may be hazardous to the health of the locals.
We are aware that even one or two days of drinking contaminated water can have detrimental impacts on one's health that may last a lifetime. According to Westmoreland, they may have fatal health consequences.
Hoop wants to see even more people have access to clean water after witnessing the organization's effect on Cusco inhabitants. To help students become leaders in their communities, the group also strives to educate community members on water safety and cleanliness.
"We have been successful in locating people who genuinely care about their communities and have the potential to be excellent trainers, leaders, water managers, or whatever it is," Hoop added.
According to Hoop, educating locals in Cusco helps develop leaders who work to better their area as well as those elsewhere in Peru or the world. The "most productive and useful approach (he's) seen" is local training, he claimed.
Hoop and the other members of the 33 Buckets team want to build on this strategy and spread the word about the need for clean water. Hoop expects they will broaden their efforts worldwide even if their current concentration is on Peru.
One day, Hoop predicted, "we'll be working closer to home and seeing how we may add value and make an effect here in Arizona or nearby in Mexico.”
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