Monroe Weber-Shirk helps bring clean water to rural Honduras

April 8, 2013

Every day, diseases spread by poor sanitation and unclean water claim the lives of approximately 5,000 children throughout the world.Monroe Weber-Shirk is the director of AguaClara, a program in Civil and Environmental Engineering that is improving drinking water quality through innovative research, knowledge transfer, open source engineering and design of sustainable, replicable water treatment systems. Cornell-designed AguaClara municipal water treatment plants in Honduras are providing over 15,000 people with safe drinking water.