BOLIVIA SUBTEAM
Originally planning to work in Calcha on an irrigation system, our team quickly identified a need for a way to connect people's homes to their crops in the wet season, during our preliminary assessment trip there. After a second trip in 2015 to collect more data to refine our plans, eight of our members spent eight weeks in the summer of 2016 implementing our design for a 50-meter supension bridge there. The following summer, we improved irrigation channels there in a second implementation trip. Finally, we returned in 2018 for a monitoring trip to ensure our projects remain long-lasting solutions to the problems identified within the community.
SUMMER 2018
Project commences, our team traveled to Tanzania to complete our first assessment trip.
FALL 2018
Analysis of initial surveying and community data. Continued outreach and research with the community.
SPRING 2019
Continued research, completed travel prep for our second assessment trip in Tanzania
FALL 2019
Tammo’s irrigation course; worked on designing three potential water irrigation systems
SPRING 2020
Started implementation prep and worked on design review.
FALL 2020
Our team worked on developing a universal irrigation engineering toolbox while our design is submitted for approval.
SPRING 2021
Our team carried out ferrocement and distribution research, and concrete scheduling.
SUMMER 2021
Due to COVID restricitons, we worked on remote implementation of the irrigation system.