The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/aguaclara/)
While the course was cancelled once after Weber-Shirk’s syllabus was rejected, Dr. YuJung Chang, vice president of water treatment technologies for Fortune 500 company AECOM, was later selected to teach the course.
Imagine waking up and opening the tap to muddy water. According to the World Health Organization, that is the predicament that 1.8 billion people worldwide find themselves in. Often water treatment plants are expensive and require too much energy to run. A team at Cornell hopes to change that. Pristine, crystal clear water is a luxury, AguaClara hopes to make it a right.