Projects

Aral Region Water Filtration

In late March, I joined a team of local environmental engineers and organizers on a project to support access to clean water in the Aral Region of western Uzbekistan.

Overview

The following table describes the activities conducted at each of the 4 schools we visited:

School Site

Lessons

Student Projects

Water Survey

Filter Installation

Kegeyli 12-mektep

✔

✔

✔

✔

Kegeyli 41-mektep

✔

✔

✔

Muynoq 1-mektep

✔

(Previously installed)

Qonliqol 7-mektep

✔

✔

In total, we worked with 131 students across 4 schools and provided clean drinking water to over 2,500 members of the schools’ respective communities.

TIAAME Forum

TIAAME Forum poster (Aral Region Fund, April 3, 2022. Tashkent UZ)

We concluded our project with a three-part forum at the Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Agricultural Mechanization (TIIAME) to report our findings and discuss with other students, aid workers, and engineers.

Presenting on water usage at the forum (Aral Region Fund, April 3, 2022. Tashkent UZ)