If you could tomorrow morning make water clean in the world, you would have done, in one fell swoop, the best thing you could have done for improving human health."
Press Coverage
KETV Newswatch 7 - October 29, 2007
"Tonight, KETV Newswatch 7's John Campbell brings us a story of one young man's quest to bring water to Africa..."
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The Reader - June 21, 2007
Well Intentions - UNO student's plan to deliver water to his native Sudan
"A little more than a month ago a University of Nebraska at Omaha student named Buey Ruey boarderd a plane in Omaha, landed in New York, spent six hours waiting to re-board, then flew for another dozen hours before landing in the United Arab Emirates half a world away..."
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Omaha World Herald - August 29, 2006
Sudanese student yearns to serve homeland
"War, poverty, and disease chased Buey Ruei and his family from their home in Sudan when he was about 11 years old. Ten years later, he is looking for ways he can help his troubled country. For starters, he's working on an initiative to provide clean water and spur development in the region where he was raised..."
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National Journal - July 29, 2006
Hill People
"Buey John Ruei Tut is working this summer in the office of Rep. Lee Terry, R-Neb., but he's not your typical Washington intern..."
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Northwestern Classic - Winter 2005-2006
The Two Lives of Jacob Khol
"In the small village of Yuem, in southern Sudan, Jacob Duoth Khol would waken with a sense of wonder. Bounding through his mud and thatch house, past the bountiful banana and mango trees, the inquisitive child would run off to hike, hunt or swim in the Nile when he wasn't caring for livestock on his father's farm..."
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