AguaClara, an engineering project team focused on resolving global water problems, designs and builds sustainable water filtration systems for communities in Honduras.

A team of 19 Cornell engineering students traveled to Honduras over winter break to design water treatment plants with the AguaClara, an internationally recognized organization that aims to bring clean water to towns in the country, where 60 to 70 percent of people do not have clean water.

To help local populations in Honduras secure clean water, the student engineering team AguaClara is working to develop three water treatment plants in the country — an addition to the five Honduran plants the team has already helped build.

In light of Nike's refusal to pay $2.2 million worth of pension payments to its Honduran workforce, it is time for the University to cut all ties with the mega-company.

During the 1980s, Prof. Monroe Weber-Shirk, civil and environmental engineering, volunteered in Latin American refugee camps. At the time, he was convinced that he would devote the rest of his life to development work in Latin America, but his plans were thwarted by a diagnosis of Hodgkin’s disease and his return to the U.S. for treatment. While pursuing a Ph.D. at Cornell, he placed his aspirations of improving the quality of life in Latin America on the back burner. A few years ago, he received a serendipitous phone call that put into motion an engineering project that would make his decades-long dream come true.