Solving the Problem of Access to Clean Water

An SF Chronicle article details the efforts of three UC Berkeley engineering students who have been recognized by campus officials for their efforts to help people in impoverished areas of India, Sri Lanka and Mexico secure clean drinking water and save lives by reducing a potentially devastating threat to public health.

In rural Baja California Sur, doctoral student Fermin Reygadas is helping residents install an inexpensive water-decontamination system developed by Cal students. The system is simple: Water from the barrels used by households in the area is circulated through a tube equipped with an ultraviolet light that instantly destroys harmful microorganisms.

Undergraduate Erin Inglish is working with doctoral student Ashley Murray to help female community leaders in Bombay, India, improve the quality of their drinking water and their children's health by installing $5 filters than can be used in the home.

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