Final Presentation:
Proposed Scenario:
The National Gaurd has utilized the Bollinger B2 truck as a platform to deal with emergency water crisises. There will be a water filter and packaging on board to move from simply delivering bottles of water or bringing water buffalos that requires residents to bring their own containers to fill.
Team One will specifically focus on delivering drinking water to people who do not have the ability to go to a distribution point and pick up water. This will likely include elderly, sick, and low-mobility people, but will also include people or families who don’t have access to personal or public forms of transportation.
Our operation will be:
— National Gaurd member arrives with a Bollinger truck outfitted with out system.
— National Gaurd member sets up filter and connects hose to a fire hydrant(water source) to start filtering water; National Gaurd member also trains volunteers on how to safely fill containers with water to make sure there is no contamination in water.
— Water is filtered into the reservoir tank, where it is filled into containers, which are loaded onto wheelbarrows, then taken out for delivery.
— When all the houses in a neighborhood or specified radius or series of blocks are served, the system is packed up, and the truck and volunteers move to the next location to minimize distance traveled for delivery.
— This system, run on five different trucks consistently is able to serve 16 thousand people over the course of 48 hours.
Filter Renders:
Form Giving:
Rough Concepts:
Refined Concepts:
Solidwork Models:
Specifying Concept:
A couple stakeholder concerns/priorities:
- National Gaurd: Effective and safe water transportation. Ease of use/operation in regards to truck, filter, water tank, etc.
- Volunteers: Ease of use when working with water tank, hoses, packages, delivery, etc. Improvements from previous, low ergonomic packages/processes that could easily injure or strain body after repetive lifting/lowering motions.
- Residents: Ease of use with water packaging. Trust in cleanliness of water.
Key needs for me to keep in mind:
When working specifically with the water filter, I will mostly be working with the national guard and the residents — even though our water is being delivered and residents aren’t directly interacting with the truck or filter, it will likely be in view of the residents and they will likely know that the water passed through the filter before being delivered to them.
Ease of use/monitoring will be key. The National Gaurd member will likely be doing a lot of organizational work in terms of overseeing and training volunteers, so they should spend minimal time checking on/working with the filter. Access to the filter should be from the outside of the truck — working with the filter inside the truck will be too cramped, and the Natinal Gaurd member will likely be working outside of the track as well.
Transparency of filtering with the residents is necessary. In an area where water safety has been an issue, it makes complete sense that residents have little to no trust in authorities when it comes to provided drinking water. Even if complete transparency with the filter is not able to be achieved, there should be the idea of transparency. All bodies of the filter should be observable from outside the truck, and functions should be displayed as well.
Suez Water Technologies filter is less bulky that the average filter, and can take in Bollinger Truck’s electricity to power the filter, cutting out the issues presented by the solar-powered water filters. Filters can be used for longer than the 2 day period without replacement, so replacing filter bodies while providing water should not be an issue. Filter design should be a modified version of the Suez filter that allows for modularity/changing filter parts when the truck is at the National Guard base.
Research and Setting a Scenario:
Key Research Takeways:
- Hinds County food risks mostly affect poorer neighborhoods, often predomenantly black neighborhoods.
- History of draining artificial Ross Barnett reservoir into Pearl river during heavy rains, leading to excess water that floods downstream neighborhoods.
- Most if not all natural water sources have contaminants of some sort.
- Heavy reliance on volunteers for water distribution directly after initial impact of floods.
- Boil water notices are common and often longstanding.
- White fight and poor management has left little budget to fix eroding infrastructure with little to no funding to fix the pipes.
- Many current portable on-site water filters require solar panels for power, creating extra bulk and relies on sunny weather for power.
Proposed Scenario:
The National Gaurd has utilized the Bollinger B2 truck as a platform to deal with emergency water crisises. There will be a water filter and packaging on board to move from simply delivering bottles of water or bringing water buffalos that requires residents to bring their own containers to fill.
Team One will specifically focus on delivering drinking water to people who do not have the ability to go to a distribution point and pick up water. This will likely include elderly, sick, and low-mobility people, but will also include people or families who don’t have access to personal or public forms of transportation.
Our operation will be:
— National Gaurd member arrives with a Bollinger truck outfitted with out system.
— National Gaurd member sets up filter and connects hose to a fire hydrant(water source) to start filtering water; National Gaurd member also trains volunteers on how to safely fill containers with water to make sure there is no contamination in water.
— Water is filtered into the reservoir tank, where it is filled into containers, which are loaded onto wheelbarrows, then taken out for delivery.
— When all the houses in a neighborhood or specified radius or series of blocks are served, the system is packed up, and the truck and volunteers move to the next location to minimize distance traveled for delivery.
— This system, run on five different trucks consistently is able to serve 16 thousand people over the course of 48 hours.
