Research Professor Karanikola Helps Bring Life Source to San Carlos Apache Community

CHEE research professor Vicky Karanikola and the UA chapter of Engineers Without Borders, or EWB, are teaming up with the Nalwoodi Denzhone Community to revitalize 80 acres of reservation land into the Nnee Nalwoodi, or Strong Apache Life Center.

While EWB offers consulting on how to restore the property's two wells and develop an irrigation system, Karanikola is developing a system to purify and assess water quality.

Karanikola, who is also a postdoctoral research fellow at Yale University and vice president of the Mountain Regional Steering Committee for EWB, was part of a team of UA researchers who helped design and create a solar-powered water-purification bus for the Navajo Nation in 2017.