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Creating a Human-Powered Water Pump for the Maasai Community in Kenya and the Developing World: Creative Project
Description
The inception of the human-powered water pump began during my trip to Maasailand in Kenya over the Summer of 2017. Being one of the few Broadening the Reach of Engineering through Community Engagement (BRECE) Scholars at Arizona State University, I was given the opportunity to join Prescott College (PC) on their annual trip to the Maasai Education, Research, and Conservation (MERC) Institute in rural Kenya. The ASU BRECE scholars that choose to travel were asked to collaborate with the local Maasai community to help develop functional and sustainable engineering solutions to problems identified alongside community members using rudimentary technology and tools that were available in this resource-constrained setting. This initiative evolved into multiple projects from the installation of GravityLights (a local invention that powers LEDs with falling sandbags), the construction/installation of smokeless stoves, and development of a much-needed solution to move water from the rainwater collection tanks around camp to other locations. This last project listed was prototyped once in camp, and this report details subsequent iterations of this human-powered pump.
Date Created
2018-05
Contributors
- Miller, Miles Edward (Author)
- Henderson, Mark (Thesis director)
- Abbas, James (Committee member)
- Engineering Programs (Contributor)
- Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor)
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53 pages
Language
eng
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In Copyright
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Academic Year 2017-2018
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.48421
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minimal
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- 2021-08-11 04:09:57
- 3 years 3 months ago
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