ATIMA, Honduras — In a few months, nearly every home in this modest Honduras hilltop town will have safe, clean drinking water, thanks to a water treatment plant principally designed by Cornell engineering students, according to a press release.

The Atima plant, under construction, is the eighth project of AguaClara, Cornell's international small-scale water treatment design team that has been working since 2005 in Honduras, where 60 to 70 percent of people do not have access to clean water, stated the release.

So far, AguaClara plants serve about 25,000 people, noted the release.

“Every one of the AguaClara facilities continues to provide safe drinking water,” said Monroe Weber-Shirk, senior lecturer in civil and environmental engineering and AguaClara team leader. “This is an amazing accomplishment in a world of failed development projects.”

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