August 7, 2010
A Soccer Field Is Designed to Multitask and Pump Clean Water to Poor Regions
Rene Macura
Children from a Los Angeles Boys and Girls Club learn soccer skills on a field designed to look like ones that will filter water for the developing world.
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Rene Macura
Children from a Los Angeles Boys and Girls Club learn soccer skills on a field designed to look like ones that will filter water for the developing world.
As kids from several Los Angeles Boys and Girls Clubs tangled over a soccer ball one recent summer day, few casual observers could have guessed that the facility surrounding them was a mock-up of a nonprofit project whose purpose is far more complex than recreation.
The soccer stadium, with enough bleachers to seat 1,000 people, was a full-size model of a project designed not only as a place to play but also as a community center and facility that can collect rain and
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