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Residents of the tiny Guatemalan village of Chicorral used to struggle up and down a steep ravine to fetch water from a stream for cooking, bathing, and drinking. Thanks to a solar-powered pump installed a few years ago by members of Johns Hopkins\u2019 chapter of Engineers Without Borders<\/a>, water now comes directly into their homes via a pipe.<\/p>\n

But technology brings with it a new issue: how to use water responsibly so that there is always enough for everyone. (The solar-powered pump doesn\u2019t operate at night or when it is extremely cloudy.)<\/p>\n

In January, the Johns Hopkins EWB team traveled to check the pump and to educate the villagers about conservation. \u201cWe visited homes to see how they were using water and talked about common-sense strategies, like not washing clothing on a cloudy day,\u201d says Bavisha Kalyan<\/strong>, EWB Guatemala project co-leader, who hopes that in coming years, Johns Hopkins EWB can return and install a second pump.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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