Engineers Without Borders is a non-profit, volunteer group. The group's objective is to provide affordable (or often free or nominally priced for the communitee), sustainable, holistic, engineered solutions to developing communities around the world. Often, but not always, these projects involve providing a source of clean drinking water for the local population. By providing communities these engineered solutions that they would otherwise not be able to have given their own resources, volunteers are often able to increase the public health of the community and and by extension economic, educational and overall standard of living conditions.
I was forwarded the article below by a colleague. The difference the group is making is growing and the recognition is coming with it.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1689197,00.html
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