March 26, 2008
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Engineering as diplomacy
by Bernard Amadei, guest columnist
You cannot look into the eyes of a child who is dying from a disease caused by drinking dirty water -- something that rarely, if ever, happens in the United States -- and not feel changed. You cannot stand before her parents without thinking, "I'm an engineer. There must be something I can do."
I first met that young girl -- and since then, thousands like her -- in Belize a decade ago. Her village had no running water. What it did have was walking water, water carried by little girls who should have been in school ...
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Engineering as diplomacy
by Bernard Amadei, guest columnist
You cannot look into the eyes of a child who is dying from a disease caused by drinking dirty water -- something that rarely, if ever, happens in the United States -- and not feel changed. You cannot stand before her parents without thinking, "I'm an engineer. There must be something I can do."
I first met that young girl -- and since then, thousands like her -- in Belize a decade ago. Her village had no running water. What it did have was walking water, water carried by little girls who should have been in school ...
read op-ed
