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Launching a Career and a Way to Make a Difference
Author(s) -
Rogers Tate W.
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal ‐ american water works association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.466
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1551-8833
pISSN - 0003-150X
DOI - 10.5942/jawwa.2014.106.0041
Subject(s) - sanitation , work (physics) , foundation (evidence) , field (mathematics) , public relations , political science , business , sociology , engineering , mathematics , law , mechanical engineering , environmental engineering , pure mathematics
Field work was conducted on a pit‐emptying system in South Africa after a proposal by the author received funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF). BMGF was looking for new ideas to meet the needs of more than 2.5 billion people without access to proper sanitation in the developing world.