Live & Learn Environmental Education

Tonle Sap Floating Toilet Project

The Tonle Sap region floods each year during the monsoon when it expands by up to 5 times. Floating villages move up to 10km with the expanding and receding flood waters, while stilted villages remain stationary, with vastly changing water levels. One of the significant environmental management issues is the lack of toilets in the floating and stilted communities. The project is designing latrines suitable for use in both floating and stilted communities.

EWB Challenge

The Engineers Without Borders Challenge (EWB Challenge) is an Australasian design program for first-year university students. Students work in teams to develop conceptual designs for projects identified by EWB's community partners that contribute towards the sustainable development of disadvantaged communities.

EWB Innovators - Tonle Sap Sanitation Project

The focus of this project is develop new and innovative technologies and practices for human waste management in floating communities. The aim is to demonstrate technologies and practices that provide an incentive for the community to take up improved sanitation by generating social, economic and environmental dividends.

In 2010 we aim to build a Community Based Waste Management Barge that will demonstrate these technologies and practices for the Phat Sanday Community in Cambodia.

South East Asia

South East Asia Knowledge Hub

Western Australia Chapter

The Western Australia Chapter of Engineers Without Borders has a very active membership, and a hard working committee. Within the WA chapter are UWA and Curtin university groups.

We have several local and international initiatives, included within our focus areas of Working with Communities, Learning and Change and Organisational Development. Check them out in the links below.