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See Corresponding Project Theses and Reports & Presentations The MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) has been working in Nepal since 1999 to help provide clean drinking water and improved sanitation to those in need. This is our most popular project. More than 30 Masters of Engineering students, MIT Sloan Business School students, MIT faculty members, the MIT New Office photojournalist and even several student from Stanford and Berkeley have traveled to Nepal as part of teams involved in this project. Our various Nepal thesis and team projects have included assessing water quality and water/sanitation surveys at project sites, evaluation and testing of existing technologies, researching, designing and developing low-cost point-of-use household water treatment technologies and business analysis and implementation of our ideas and technologies. Our field sites include the Kathmandu Valley, the hills region in and around Tansen, and the Terai Region (Kapilvastu, Rupendehi, Nawalparasi, Parsa, Bara, Rautahat, Siraha, and Saptari Districts). Our investigations in Nepal fall into several broad categories, as follows:
At the household scale, we have evaluated four different types of household treatment technologies for addressing microbial contamination: (1) Ceramic Filters For arsenic contamination, we have evaluated eight different arsenic remediation technologies: (1) Three-Kolshi/ Gagri |