The Lien Institute for the Environment (LIFE) works in individual communities within developing countries to produce appropriate and life saving water, sanitation, and shelter technologies. A team of students from Nanyang Technological University and Harvey Mudd College Global Clinic are designing a wastewater treatment system for use in the Jiaoyuan village, in the Sichuan province of the People’s Republic of China. The team is designing and testing systems to treat the blackwater and greywater from individual households in the village.