Pure Home Water's 2011 Ghana Blogs. Check out the posts from our student researchers:

• Jonathan: http://thinkingoaktree.blogspot.com
• Josh: http://jchester2011.blogspot.com
• Zac D.: http://zacghana.blogspot.com
• ChiPhi: http://chiphigoestoghana.tumblr.com

*Blog information below taken from MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering - FieldworkBlogs

2011: KATIE PUCKETT REPORTING FROM HONDURAS
Katie Puckett and Kent Walker will spend January performing an assessment of the wastewater treatment in the Lake Yojoa subwatershed in western Honduras.

*2011: CLAUDIA ESPINOZA REPORTING FROM NEPAL
Claudia Espinoza and Maclyn O'Donnell are doing research in the Terai region of Nepal to find out why arsenic drinking water filters are failing under certain conditions.

*2010: TRAVIS WATTERS REPORTING FROM GHANA
Travis Watters, an M.Eng. program graduate from Louisville, Ky., spent January 2010 in Ghana helping with development plans for a water filter factory.

2010: PATTY CHUANG REPORTING FROM THE PHILIPPINES
Patty Chuang, an M.Eng. student in the Environmental and Water Quality Engineering track, is in the Capiz Province of the Philippines doing fieldwork.

2008: ANNE MIKELONIS REPORTING FROM HONDURAS
Anne Mikelonis was in Las Vegas, Honduras, evaluating the town's sewage treatment facility. The system collects wastewater in open culverts that flow to tanks where sludge is collected. As the system ages, wastewater is not always properly treated before being discharged into a creek that empties into Lake Yojoa.

2008: KATHERINE VATER REPORTING FROM THAILAND
Three grad students in the Master of Engineering program were working in the Mae La refugee camp in Thailand evaluating the camp’s drinking water distribution system. One of several camps in Thailand that have existed for many years, Mae La is home to about 20,000 Burmese who fled their homeland.

2008: CASH FITZPATRICK REPORTING FROM GHANA
Cash Fitzpatrick was an M.Eng. student working on household drinking water supply and storage in Ghana. His work there this January will provide data that could help minimize the occurrence of two widespread illnesses—diarrhea and guinea worm disease—both of which are associated with unclean water.

2008: KELLY DOYLE REPORTING FROM RWANDA
Graduate student Kelly Doyle was in Ruhengeri, Rwanda, testing the water quality in rainwater storage tanks and making recommendations for improvements.

2007: DRINKING WATER RESEARCH IN GHANA
MEng graduate, Sophie Johnson and the student research team, GH2O Consultants, are studying practical ways to provide clean, fresh water to homes in rural Ghana. This MEng research will provide data that could help minimize the occurrence of two widespread and very serious illnesses in Ghana: diarrhea and guinea worm disease.

•Read Sophie Johnson's blog

2008: REBECCA NEUMANN REPORTING FROM BANGLADESH
Rebecca Neumann, a Ph.D. student in environmental engineering, is researching groundwater arsenic contamination in Bangladesh. This January, Rebecca is in Bangladesh studying the role played by rice fields and ponds—the two primary recharge sources for the aquifer—in the arsenic contamination problem.