Cornell News: A 1972 trip to Guatemala ended with life-long commitment to water projects
- Alex Fusaro
- Apr 3
- 1 min read
Bruce Clemens ’72 left Cornell after graduation with a one-way ticket to Guatemala and a desire to “cure poverty,” a mindset he says wasn’t unusual among classmates of that time.
Fast forward 54 years and the non-profit that Clemens helped to found there, Aqua del Pueblo, has completed more than 500 water, sanitation and community development projects in the country, covering 1,000 towns and benefitting 500,000 people.
Clemens tells his story as the guest for the March Startup Cornell podcast, hosted by Entrepreneurship at Cornell.
A 1973 photo of Agua del Pueblo’s first office, a single room with a pig pen on the other side of the wall. From left, Bruce Clemens '72, Lynn Gullette and Bill Copacino '72, among the co-founders of Agua del Pueblo.
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