Why is EWB needed?
One of the most pressing issues facing humanity today is to world poverty and the challenge of how to improve people’s quality of life around the world. This dilemma has been recently expressed through the Millennium Development Goals. These goals include, among others, halving the 3 billion poor people who live on less than $2 per day, halving the 800 million who are hungry, and halving the 1 billion who don’t have access to safe water. First, developing communities require improved access to appropriate technologies such as water filters, pumps, irrigation techniques, and renewable energy. For these technologies to be lasting, the local technical sector needs to develop the capacity to produce innovative, appropriate and sustainable solutions for their community’s needs. Second, we in the Australia need to ensure that our lifestyles, the policies of our government and the operations of our companies do not contribute to the problem or pose excessive barriers against the development o
