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Photo in Mexican central highlands
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I just came on your site and am quite impressed it has the potential to link many good ideas and good people.
Suggest that those selling books, materials, and services not be admitted to your site for this will pollute the effort. It is too much to climb over and around these dollar driven folks wishing to use your site to make money.
Suggest that a way be found to merge groups so there is not the appearance of 1000 groups of 2 each on your site. It seems too many may want their time in the sun and thus are inclined to create a new group of 1 than to add their effort to expand an existing group. Perhaps if members were required to join one of say 30 core groups that would lead to the critical masses needed to produce action. In time if it was shown some more core groups should be added, then do it. These people could at the same time continue to create their group of 1 or 2 as now mostly seen on your site. |
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As a volunteer engineer working for 15 years (at no salary) in the Developing World with a focus on water supply I would like to have non-engineers consider the many benefits that can be derived from using surface water (e.g. lakes, streams). In that construction and operational economics clearly favor (4 to 1) processing surface water over drilling deep wells it is equally clear that more of the poor of the world could be provided good water for the scarce resources available. There are simple, very mature, low cost technologies that can convert most any surface water source into drinking water with no need for chemicals, and most often with no need for electrical or other power. These systems can be scaled upward from a single family providing pure drinking water as their source of income to 300 of its neighbors at a cost of a penny a gallon or less, to systems to address the water needs of villages of up to 50,000 persons. If there is any surface water within 1 km or if there is ground water at less than 6 meters depth it makes great sense to process such water with the simplest of technologies rather than go the route of very expensive, very risky deep wells that require costly drillling machines, imported pumps and clean electricity. It is no secret among engineers that over 50% of the wells funded by well intentioned NGOs fail within 1-3 years. It is not necessary to think well drilling when one says water . Dr. Todd D. Stong, Licensed Professional Engineer |
Bowo
I admire your passion.
I am passionate too, but in my case for doing things with water supply for the poor.
My sense is that you with your youth are yet in that state where you see idealized futures and you are driven to be some kind of an activist that calls for actions but your followers are mostly more people calling for action, but so very few prepared or able to act.
That is while I am impressed by your zeal I am saddened that there seems no tangible action to come from your energies. It seems all talk.
For example I seldom read a paragraph that does not contain a number for I know that people can talk on endlessly with adjectives that have no relative meaning, but to place a number, to quantify something means you put your reputation on the table. I am willing to put numbers with what I say and do and then I hope for others to step up with better numbers if they can. But with the people that seem to post here there is little sense they are in the real world due to their lack of action, their abundance of talk.