A UNBC board will be taking questions on the execution of off-grid technologies for water sanitation.

UNBC’s Water and Sanitation Holistic Technologies Research Group is working on maintainable solutions for water in remote areas.

“The objective of our project is to have outreach in these rural and remote communities, definitely because they don’t always have the infrastructure support that other people get in larger urban cities,” said UNBC Molecular Biology and Biochemistry student Lexy Green.

“Because of that, their water and sanitation services are not up to the mark, they don’t have access to clean water, they don’t have access to sanitation services, and this ends up with a lot of either impure unsafe drinking water, and then dumping of raw water into the environment, which is a big concern for us.”

Green says they’re in search of sustainable, long-term solutions that are ecologically friendly, and that people can implement themselves.

The investigation group will be hosting the panel at the Wood Innovation and Design Centre on Thursday at 5:30 p.m.