ACI Travels Back to Queretaro, Mexico

ACI staff, Dr. Harry Knopke and Jay VandenBrink, traveled back to Queretaro, Mexico this past March to install 5 Facility Units and train community members around the rural town of San Ildelfonso, Mexico.

These projects are being performed with our partnership with the University Autonomous of Querétaro. This trip consisted of ACI staff and University staff training local community leaders in the rural areas of San Idelfonso and Amealco, Mexico. With the training session, the community members learned and built their own Bio-Sand Filters to be brought back to their home by government officials. A local technician was also taught and installed one ACI Facility Filter Unit to be used in an elementary school of 600 students. Four more Facility Filter Units will be built in the coming weeks.

Also, we learned that undergraduate students of the University have taken it upon themselves to train other communities around Queretaro on clean water and the construction of BSFs.

Screen Shot 2014-04-01 at 1.42.38 PM — Dra. Hilda Romero demonstrating/training the ACI Technologies to community leaders and government officials

Screen Shot 2014-04-01 at 1.42.14 PM — Local community leaders sifting sand for their BSFs

Screen Shot 2014-04-01 at 1.43.45 PM — ACI staff, Dr. Harry Knopke and Jay VandenBrink, with locals and their newly constructed BSFs

Screen Shot 2014-04-01 at 1.45.50 PM — Dr. Harry Knopke and Alejandro, a local technician, constructing the Facility Filter Unit in an elementary school of 600 students

Screen Shot 2014-04-01 at 1.43.07 PM — The dammed river that is the contaminated source of water for San Ildefonso

Screen Shot 2014-04-01 at 1.44.56 PM — The local community leaders with their certification of completion given by the University Autonomous of Queretaro in Bio-sand Filtration construction and training

Screen Shot 2014-04-01 at 1.45.14 PM — Government officials helping locals load and install their new BSFs

University Autonomous of Querétaro Engineering students teaching elementary students on sanitation and BSF construction and use in a near by village of Colon.