Engineers Without Borders USA's water infrastructure project in Uganda

摘要

WATER - sustainer of health, dignity and life - is at the heart of the mission of Engineers Without Borders USA (EWB-USA) in Uganda, which hosts one of the largest refugee populations in the world and has enormous water infrastructure needs. EWB-USA, a non-profit organisation that provides sustainable engineering solutions in developing countries, has worked in Uganda on a variety of water, sanitation and hygiene initiatives, including developing standards for solar water pumping. In 2020, it started a water system GIS mapping project to provide the accurate geolocation and other data for sustainable water infrastructure development in the West Nile sub-region of northern Uganda. The water asset mapping project is partially supported by the Trimble Foundation Fund, which has donated GIS and mapping technology solutions for the water inventory project. In 2019, the fund recommended a grant of $100,000 for EWB-USA and its professional Engineering Service Corp (ESC) to support ESC's efforts to significantly develop its global disaster response, recovery and resilience engineering work.