{{Teams from three New England colleges have won about $15,000 each in a student competition to design sustainable technologies that help protect public health and the environment.}}
Teams from Dartmouth College in Hanover designed a hydropower generation and distribution system to bring electricity to rural areas of Rwanda.
The technologies also aim at promoting economic development.
Teams from Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H., University of Massachusetts in Lowell and the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine, were among 45 teams nationwide to win awards in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s annual competition.
College of the Atlantic students designed a process to pre-treat food waste to produce liquid fuel and biogas.
At UMass-Lowell, students are designing a new class of non-toxic wetting agents used in soap and other items.
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