"It's More Than a Well" a mini-documentary on the EWB-Illinois water project in Enugu state, Nigeria

Monday, February 23rd 12pm

428 Armory

 The Big Ten Network with the support of the Office of the Chancellor has produced a mini-documentary on the EWB-Illinois water project in Enugu state, Nigeria The program includes interviews and footage shot by the project team during their stay in Nigeria this past summer and fall.  This seminar will include a showing of Its More Than a Well, followed by Q&A with members of the project team.

More about the project: Canadians Samaritans for Africa partnered with Engineers Without Borders at the University of Illinois and Ebonyi State University, Nigeria beginning in 2006 to build a water system for the village of Adu-Achi, a community in Enugu State in eastern Nigeria.  A team of engineering students first traveled to Nigeria in August 2006 to conduct a site assessment, collecting data and assessing the needs and desires of the community.  The Enugu Project team has since been recognized nationally and internationally for its holistic approach.  The team won the Best Student Presentation at the National Groundwater Research and Education Foundation Summit and was a finalist for the Mondialogo Engineering Award sponsored by UNESCO and Daimler Chrysler in Mumbai, India.  The project team also won an EPA P3 grant, exhibited their work on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., and subsequently won the $75,000 final round competition.  The funds were used to develop the water system infrastructure, including the distribution system and the well-drilling.