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Giving high school students first-hand exposure the university experience can go a long way and conveying the benefits of a college education in general, and of the programs of our respective member institutions in particular. A WaterCAMPWS campus visit, that contains a component of demonstrating water quality and purification research, gives incoming freshman a familar research area to move towards early in their college careers.
Engineering Open House 2006
Events following Hurricane Katrina showed us that residents of disaster areas cannot always rely on the government to provide immediate relief when the scale of the disaster is large. The media provided us with endless images and stories about people stranded on rooftops, surrounded by floodwaters, waiting for helicopters to deliver supplies like clean drinking water. The human requirement for clean water and the difficulties associated with transporting drinking water to people in disaster areas has motivated the need for a small water treatment device that can turn contaminated floodwater into safe drinking water. The National Science Foundation
