Rick McGowan
Clean Water Consultant

Rick McGowan has worked in 29 countries in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East as a water and renewable energy engineer, and a water project designer, manager and engineer for World Bank, Asian Development Bank, UNDP and USAID projects.  He has designed and/or managed rural and small towns water supply and sanitation projects in Vietnam, Indonesia and Nepal, and done short term water project design and evaluation work in Sri Lanka, China, India, Cambodia, Malaysia, and the Philippines, and carried out renewable and conventional energy work in Lesotho, Botswana, Burma, Thailand, Kenya, Yemen and Sudan. 

He has done short term project and proposal design work in fun places like Somalia, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, and the ex-Soviet Republic of Georgia.  As a military kid who moved every two years in his youth, a graduate of Taipei American School, and an ex-Peace Corps Volunteer who spent three years in Nepal in the early ‘70s, he thoroughly enjoys traveling and working in multi-cultural surroundings.  He speaks (to widely varying degrees) Bahasa Indonesia, Nepali, French, and inexcusably pitiful Vietnamese.

He has written numerous reports on rural water supply design, renewable energy applications, energy efficiency, environmental assessment, project management, corruption in infrastructure development projects, and environmental assessment. Rick thinks EMW does an admirable job of providing reasonable cost, high quality water systems that are technically and financially sustainable, and does what he can to assist in that noble effort.

Katarina Runeberg
Volunteer Consultant
Katarina Runeberg brings several years of consulting and research as a water quality specialist to EMW’s Clean Water program, where she will serve as a volunteer consultant for the next three months. She will assist the Clean Water team with technical communication and information, as well as establish a small in-house laboratory for water quality monitoring. Prior to moving to Vietnam from Sweden in 2006, Katarina has been working with issues related to water quality at a technical consulting firm and a European research team. She holds a M.S. in Environmental Engineering.

Nguyen Duy Phong
Program Assistant/Site Supervisor
Nguyen Duy Phong comes to EMW with a background in supervising civil construction projects, such as the building of roads, highways and bridges, as well as managing product manufacturing of materials like bricks, tile, cement and concrete. Phong has managed quality control over construction materials as well as doing geological surveying. He has a background in chemical engineering.
Phong says his first months have been busy meeting with local communities, surveying projects and overseeing the construction quality of water projects. Phong will provide reporting and data analysis about the Clean Water program.
Phong graduated from the Poly Technical University of Danang and says when not working, he likes reading books, especially scientific magazines, learning English and listening to music.

Doan Ngoc Duong
Program Assistant/Site Supervisor
Duong said that he knew of EMW and its charity programs from his friends, citing the reason that he applied to be a site supervisor for EMW’s Clean Water program. “I find it is interesting to work with EMW. My work is monitoring the construction of water supply systems. I am very happy to be a member here. I like watching TV and reading in my free time.”

 

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