UW Engineers Without Borders students to learn about filtration at MWU well
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Tonight, a group of students from the UW Madison chapter of Engineers Without Borders will get an inside look MWU’s newest facility – the recently rebuilt Well 7 at 1613 N. Sherman Avenue.
The students are working to design a safe, reliable water system in Tabuga, Ecuador, where villagers have been using water from streams often contaminated with e-coli. A well and cistern system also serves the community, but the water it supplies contains extremely high levels of manganese and other minerals. Manganese levels found in Tabuga’s groundwater are more than twice as high as the highest levels ever measured in Madison.
Tonight at 6:00 p.m., students will meet at Well 7 to study its new state-of-the-art iron and manganese filtration system and talk with MWU’s principal engineer about challenges they might face implementing and maintaining a filtration system in a remote village like Tabuga. The students will learn how Madison Water Utility addresses the water quality challenges in their own backyard and how those solutions may help the people of Tabuga.
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