David Nokovic, an undergraduate student at Portland State University, has committed to help design and implement two renewably powered water filtration systems to be implemented in rural Thailand.
His goal is to install these systems in two years while creating environmental awareness on his campus, and involving area youth in educating the greater community as a whole about water and energy issues.
Nokovic will team up with the Portland-based NGO, Green Empowerment, to develop and implement a water filtration device that is adaptable to exiting infrastructures in order to minimize resource consumption and increase replicability. His work will focus on a water filtration system that uses bicycles to filter the water needed for a single family. This allows for it to be picked up easily in communities who use bicycles often. Nokovic also notes that this design will make it well received among communities such as Portland, which has a profound love for bicycles, generating greater support for the project in Thailand.