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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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Speed boat travels in Cambodia

May 20, 2009

Today, we travelled from Chau Doc to Phnom Penh by speed boat. We stopped at the Cambodian border to purchase visas and took a few pictures. The ride up the Mekong River was relaxing and only took about 5 hours. Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia, is very beautiful. As soon as we arrived there we saw a few monkeys. Later in the day I saw a young elephant being led along the main street. For the afternoon we purchased essential equipment for the testing kit from a local market. Dr. Joe Brown introduced us to the Cambodian food by taking us to a not for profit restaurant called Friends.

Robert Quinney, a sophomore in civil engineering

We are posing for a shot with some Cambodian architecture at the customs checkpoint. The ladies are spelling out CII, one of the generous firms that assisted with funding for this trip.