Project Description:
Project South Africa aims to partner with the Church Agricultural Project (CAP) to provide ram pumps for irrigation. Their objective is to provide sustainable water for agriculture among AIDS-stricken poor communities in rural KwaZulu-Natal. Though water is locally plentiful, it must be brought uphill manually. They propose to improve food supplies and reduce the labor expended to irrigate community gardens.
Project Stage:
Post-implemetation
Recent Work:
Summer 2011: In August, a team traveled to the country and visited 5 sites in which the pump had been installed. They surveyed the area and performed flow measurements for the pump. Moreover, the team talked with the local community about the pump in an attempt to make the project more sustainable.
Spring 2011: The South Africa team was preparing for the upcoming trip during the summer. This required planning logistics, getting in touch with in country partners and investigating methods to evaluate the pump.
Future work: Now, the team is focusing on completing post-monitoring reports and presenting news from the trip to the rest of the group.
Project Leaders 2011-2012
Pujan Desai'14
Civil Engineering
Project Lead: pujandesai@jhu.edu
Seth Stadick '14
Molecular and Cellular Biology
Project Lead: sstadick@gmail.com
Clea Baumhofer'14
Civil Engineering
Project Lead: cleabaumhofer@gmail.com
Amory Martin '14
Civil Engineering
Project Lead: amarti64@jhu.edu
Team Meetings:
Thursday @6pm, Ames 302
Project Leaders:
Seth Stadick ('14)
Pujan Desai ('14)