Green Options » Engineering for Developing Communities http://greenoptions.com/tag/engineering-for-developing-communities Posts tagged 'Engineering for Developing Communities' Thu, 12 Jun 2008 23:52:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Bicycle-Powered Water Pumps and Filtration Systems http://ecoworldly.com/2008/06/12/bicycle-powered-water-pumps-and-filtration-systems/ http://ecoworldly.com/2008/06/12/bicycle-powered-water-pumps-and-filtration-systems/#comments Thu, 12 Jun 2008 23:52:34 +0000 Nayelli Gonzalez http://ecoworldly.com/2008/06/12/bicycle-powered-water-pumps-and-filtration-systems/ bike-water-pumppreviewNote: this article is part of this week’s EcoWorldly cycling series: Cycling and its importance in countries around the world.

As a writer on global writer issues, I wasn’t quite sure what to do when my writing colleagues at EcoWorldly suggested that we all contribute to a series on bicycling.

Bikes and water: could the two really be related? To my pleasant surprise, they are indeed!

I learned about several organizations dedicated to providing people in developing nations with the means to get clean water through the use of bicycles.

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