Alaska Water and Sewer Challenge
Press Releases
Articles and Interviews
- High Energy Costs in Rural AK Water Treatment and Distribution Systems (ACS ES&T Water, September 2022)
- Can rural homes use the same water over and over? A UAA project aims to see. (Alaska Dispatch, August 8, 2016)
- UAA team works to end the need for honey buckets (University of Alaska Anchorage, May 25, 2016)
- New approach could be the solution for better sanitation in Bush villages (Alaska Dispatch, December 8, 2015)
- State-sponsored design challenge aims to end honey buckets in rural Alaska (KTVA Channel 11, December 8, 2015)
- Legislative committees get update on rural water projects (Alaska Journal of Commerce, October 7, 2015)
- In 2015, nearly 3 dozen Alaska villages lack basic plumbing (Associated Press, September 20, 2015)
- Sanitation Problems in Native America – Radio Interview (Native America Calling, May 28, 2015)
- Rural Alaska's Water Issues – TV interview (Alaska Public Media, May 8, 2015)
- Acknowledging progress against the honey bucket in rural Alaska (Alaska Dispatch, December 10, 2014)
- DEC looks for innovative water and sewer solutions (The Nome Nugget, December 4, 2014)
- Engineering competition has designs on eliminating Alaska's honey buckets (Alaska Dispatch, November 29, 2014)
- 'Village Sewer and Water' Radio interview by Steve Heimel from APRN (November 21, 2014)
- Venture funding available to innovators who solve rural Alaska's honeybucket riddle (Alaska Dispatch, September 28, 2013)
- Alaska Water and Sewer Challenge, Since You Asked: Episode 11 by Alaska State Library (June 1, 2014)
- Alaska's Rural Water and Sanitation Conundrum (Witness the Arctic, Fall 2013)
- Alaska Spurs R&D of Alternative Water and Sewer Systems (World Water Magazine, Summer 2013)
Related Stories and Websites
- Google+ Hangout on Arctic Water Issues (Broadcast by U.S. Department of State, June 21, 2016)
- Dump The Bucket (A water reuse project for Alaskan villages)
- Kick the bucket (Facebook page about sanitation in rural Alaska)
- Bill Gates wants to turn poop into drinking water (CNN Money, January 7, 2015)
- Bill Gates' Plan to Help the Developing World Profit From Its Sewage (WIRED, January 6, 2015)
- Consuming Untreated Water in Four Southwestern Alaska Native Communities: Reasons Revealed and Recommendations for Change (Journal of Environmental Health, Volume 77, No.5 December 2014)
- UK's first 'poo bus' goes into service between Bristol and Bath (BBC News, November 20, 2014)
- Drop a brick, feel better about the California drought (Grist, October 14, 2014)
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