Providing water and sanitation after a destructive military revolution in Peru; engineering with elephants in Kenya; and plunging into enormous pot holes in Uganda, the professional life of civil engineer Brittany Harris has been more eventful since she graduated in 2015 than many engineers’ experience throughout their entire working careers. Her efforts to bring sustainable water and sanitation to developing countries, and to encourage other engineers to do the same, led the Institution of Civil Engineers to name Brittany as an engineering superhero: Water Woman.
“I didn’t think elephants were an engineering problem, but apparently they are and so we had to go and understand this. We went out to Kenya and we asked the guys to walk us along the pipe route……What was happening was that the elephants in the dry season can smell the water underground and they go along and dig up the pipe where it was shallowest”
Find out more in this episode of Engineering Matters.
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Brittany Harris, CEO, Qualis Flow
SPECIAL THANKS TO
Engineers Without Borders UK leads a movement to promote a globally responsible mindset in the engineering community. So how do they do this?
They work to change how engineering is perceived, to attract and inspire a diverse cohort of future engineering talent into the industry.
They embed the principles of global responsibility into engineering education in schools and universities around the world so that future engineers can deliver engineering for good.
They provide pro bono engineering support for communities delivering projects to improve access to water, sanitation and clean energy and innovations for the built environment.
If, like Brittany Harris, you want to get involved in this amazing organisation you can find out more from their website www.ewb-uk.org. Where you sign up to their newsletter and keep up to date with all the activities and opportunities that are currently happening. You can also join the discussion on their twitter @ewbuk.
