By: Vanessa Nyarko
The University of Minnesota’s Engineers Without Borders program is gearing up to spend spring break in Guatemala.
Students will build improvements for irrigation systems in a small agricultural village, Agua Caliente, which will help its citizens grow an important cash crop — blackberries.
The berries grow on top of the mountains in that region, so the students designed new valves that will improve the way pumps propel water up the mountain for the crops.