The Nepal Water Project was a collective effort of five Master of Engineering (MEng) students
at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to evaluate six types of drinking water
treatment systems in Nepal. These five students and their advisor traveled to Nepal for three
weeks in January 2001 to do field studies and to try to understand the culture of the peoples for
whom they were attempting to recommend treatment systems. The Nepal Water Project was
completed as part of the degree requirement for the Master of Engineering program at MIT; each
student had an independent project and they collaborated on these projects to produce a group
report. This thesis is one of those independent projects and is submitted as a part of the overall
project goal.
Susan Murcott, the project advisor, initiated the Nepal Water Project in 1999. Murcott, an
environmental engineer, was a keynote speaker at the Second International Women in Water
conference in Kathmandu, Nepal in 1998. During this conference, water quality problems in
Nepal were explained to her and her help was requested. In order to try and address the issues of
concern, she began the Nepal Water Project with a group of seven students the following fall.
Her main goals were to understand the quality of the drinking water sources in Nepal and then to
try and develop point of use, household water treatment systems, following the advice and
recommendations that Murcott had received from the Nepali women.
at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to evaluate six types of drinking water
treatment systems in Nepal. These five students and their advisor traveled to Nepal for three
weeks in January 2001 to do field studies and to try to understand the culture of the peoples for
whom they were attempting to recommend treatment systems. The Nepal Water Project was
completed as part of the degree requirement for the Master of Engineering program at MIT; each
student had an independent project and they collaborated on these projects to produce a group
report. This thesis is one of those independent projects and is submitted as a part of the overall
project goal.
Susan Murcott, the project advisor, initiated the Nepal Water Project in 1999. Murcott, an
environmental engineer, was a keynote speaker at the Second International Women in Water
conference in Kathmandu, Nepal in 1998. During this conference, water quality problems in
Nepal were explained to her and her help was requested. In order to try and address the issues of
concern, she began the Nepal Water Project with a group of seven students the following fall.
Her main goals were to understand the quality of the drinking water sources in Nepal and then to
try and develop point of use, household water treatment systems, following the advice and
recommendations that Murcott had received from the Nepali women.
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