Water wizard

摘要

Ian smout has not yet had the call from Iraq, but these are early days and the reconstruction of that battered nation has barely started. If the call comes it will be no surprise, because helping to rebuild nations on their knees due to war, famine or just straightforward grinding poverty is the stock in trade of Smout and his colleagues at the Water Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC), part of Loughborough University's Institute of Development Engineering. The WEDC has already been active in Afghanistan, providing advice on the development of its water and sanitation systems, kickstarting the country's long, slow journey from a ruined infrastructure to something its people can rely on.