Patel School of Global Sustainability

Maryhelen Shuman-Groh

The Dominica Water and Sewerage Company, DOWASCO, is headquartered in Roseau.  It is government run.  There are a few water bottling companies and a number of households in the high peaks that are not on the DOWASCO system but, otherwise, potable water is supplied by DOWASCO.  There is only one waste water treatment plant [...]

Maria Booker

This week has been relatively busy in terms of academic advancements. I had been working with Dr. Alsharif in defining and redefining my proposal, so it was finally a relief to begin working on my research results and discussion. I ascertained in an earlier post that the malaria numbers needed better refining, but wasn’t [...]

Rain, Rain, Go Away???

Joy Ingram

It’s still raining here….

Maryhelen Shuman-Groh

The following morning and everything is looking a lot brighter!

Maryhelen Shuman-Groh

On those rare days I am not working at DOWASCO, I have been trying to get around the island to see how things are done in different towns and businesses.  I happened upon the Manicou River Resort in my web searches prior to arrival and was very interested in their efforts to be low-impact [...]

Maryhelen Shuman-Groh

I feel a lot like this truck making its way through the capital city of Roseau (pronounced row-zo).  There are four guys on top of the truck to hold up the electrical wires in order for the truck to pass.  I took this photo after I’d climbed off the mini-bus for my third of [...]

Well, I made it safely into San Salvador, El Salvador. My first week was spent meeting the people I will be working with at the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and the Ministry of Health. I did not get to spend too much time with them because I came down with the dreaded travelers [...]

Shannee Green

Sorry for the brief intermission in postings, things are finally picking up and I realize each day how special Singapore is, in terms of sustainability.  Well I scheduled two tours for next week, one for the NEWater Visiter Centre and the other is at the Marina Barrage Reservoir. Each of these water supply systems [...]

Maria Booker

Things in Accra are beginning to wrap up, I think. I received the reported cases of malaria that I was hoping for, but I have yet to make sense of it. The information comes with some serious limitations. There is no demographic reporting in the country, each clinic reports its malaria cases regardless of [...]

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