Engineers Without Borders

4-28-08 Project Meeting

May 1, 2008 at 5:20 pm | In Meeting Minutes |

 

ACJF Grant Proposal (up to $12000) for project funding:

·         There is a 1 page application limit.  We have plenty of material, it just needs to be narrowed down.  Will continue working on it this week.

Summer Project Costs:

·         Rough Estimates (not including a fudge factor of maybe 30% to be safe)

o   $2260 for El Naranjito system

o   $2080 for Las Mercedes

o   $4340 Total

 

·         We have just about finalized the pipe sizes, and there a few minor tank size questions left.

 

Education:

·         Goals

o   Education about liter/water contamination is landowner requirement for using land.     

§  Help community come up with plan to deal with this.

§  Have some educational materials.

·         How to encourage people to change behavior?

o   What do we send to Aaron?

o   Incentives.

o   Just teaching probably won’t be enough.