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As part of The University of Alabama Engineers Without Borders service learning project, a group of students and faculty are traveling to Vietnam and Cambodia to assess drinking water quality in rural households as part of a clean water initiative.
The team consists of Dr. Philip Johnson, Dr. Joe Brown, Ynhi Thai, Rebecca Macdonald, Marcus Aguilar, Will Black, Billy Clark, Sonja Gregorowicz, Rob Quinney, Andrew Magee, Rebecca Midkiff, and Lissa Petrey.

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Testing water and taking the bus express

May 19, 2009

During the morning of May 19, Dr. Joe Brown explained how to use the Oxfam Delagua portable water testing kit. The testing we will be doing includes turbidity, pH and chlorine, and thermotolerent coloform analysis. After a few preparations for going to Cambodia, we all hopped in a very small bus to travel 6 hours to Chau Doc, a port town of Vietnam. It was interesting how we never saw open country from Saigon to Chau Doc.

Robert Quinney, a sophomore in civil engineering