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ENGINEERING FOR DEVELOPING COMMUNITIES: Introduction
ENGINEERING FOR DEVELOPING COMMUNITIES: Introduction
Pages 33-36
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The challenges involve not only the technical complexities of developing sustainable, affordable, small-scale infrastructure and other engineered systems, but also the "engineering" of difficult interfaces between these technical components and the socioeconomic, cultural, and political contexts in which they are embedded. The opportunities are principally the "opportunity cost" to society of resolving these problems and the size of the potential markets that will benefit from innovations, including 3 billion people who live on less than $2 per day, 2.1 billion who do not have access to sanitation services, and 1.2 billion who do not have access to safe drinking water.
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The presentations cover both practical and policy aspects of these issues.
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