Engineering clean water Kettering's Engineers Without Borders
teamed up with sixth graders at Pierce Elementary to engineer
clean drinking water for a town in Mexico. Clean, safe drinking
water isn't easy to come by in Estanque de Leon, Mexico, but it
may be easier to get after Kettering University's Engineers
Without Borders-A Section (EWB) and sixth graders at Pierce
Elementary School in Flint research a way to filter the mucky
water currently used in the Mexican community for drinking,
cooking and washing. EWB came up with "Project Clean Water" as a
follow-up to their inaugural design-build project in July
putting climbing/sliding structures on every Flint elementary
school playground. The thrust of the planned project in Mexico
is for Kettering students to build a water filtration system for
the natural water reservoir that exists near the community of
Estanque de Leon (or Reservoir of the Lion, in English), and
determine if water from the existing reservoir can made safe for
drinking, according to Dr. La