Environmental Internship Program - 2019 Booklet
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PROJECT TITLE<br />
The Implementation of a<br />
Gravity-Fed Potable<br />
Water System in<br />
Pusunchás, Perú<br />
ORGANIZATION(S)<br />
Engineers Without<br />
Borders (EWB),<br />
Princeton Chapter, Peru<br />
LOCATION(S)<br />
Otuzco, Peru<br />
MENTOR(S)<br />
Peter Jaffe,<br />
William L. Knapp ’47<br />
Professor of Civil<br />
Engineering,<br />
Professor of Civil<br />
and <strong>Environmental</strong><br />
Engineering,<br />
Princeton University;<br />
Corrie Kavanaugh,<br />
Technical Mentor, EWB;<br />
Josh Umansky,<br />
Technical Mentor, EWB<br />
Kristen Ahner ’22<br />
MECHANICAL AND AEROSPACE ENGINEERING<br />
Certificate: Applied and Computational Mathematics<br />
Yulissa Cantero ’21<br />
MECHANICAL AND AEROSPACE ENGINEERING<br />
Sydney Hsu ’21<br />
MECHANICAL AND AEROSPACE ENGINEERING<br />
Certificates: History and the Practice of Diplomacy, Robotics and Intelligent Systems<br />
Pranav Iyer ’22<br />
MECHANICAL AND AEROSPACE ENGINEERING<br />
Linda Pucurimay ’21<br />
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING<br />
Riley Wagner ’20<br />
CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL ENGINEERING<br />
Certificate: Sustainable Energy<br />
Claire Wayner ’22<br />
CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING<br />
Certificates: <strong>Environmental</strong> Studies, Sustainable Energy, Urban Studies<br />
The Princeton Engineers Without Borders-Perú<br />
team finalized the implementation of a gravityfed<br />
water system in Pusunchás, Perú, which<br />
provides the rural community with reliable<br />
access to potable water. The project collects water<br />
from a mountain spring and brings it via a<br />
3-kilometer conduction line to a centralized<br />
reservoir tank. From the reservoir, three major<br />
distribution lines deliver that water directly to<br />
tap stands placed at each household. In August,<br />
seven students traveled for four weeks to connect<br />
the remaining houses to the distribution<br />
network, instruct the community water council<br />
on proper system maintenance, make<br />
improvements to the source capture, and install a<br />
chlorination tank at the reservoir tank. We also<br />
took time to visit nearby communities in search<br />
of a new project that the team will return to Perú<br />
in summer 2020 to assess. The team also will<br />
travel back to Pusunchás to ensure that the<br />
project is functioning properly and that the<br />
community has the resources and knowledge to<br />
maintain the water system once our partnership<br />
has ended.<br />
WATER AND HEALTH<br />
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