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You are a member of a team of four company managers working for a nonprofit mechanical engineering firm that aims to develop sustainable mechanized systems for third world countries. Your firm funds numerous small projects and usually aims to utilize the community's local resources to create the project design deliverables.

Your design team had invented an inexpensive filtration mechanism that helped the community find a healthy source of water. The community declared the project a success when the team delivered it to the community. However, recently a member of a Bolivian community the firm had worked with a few years ago contacted your team. The community member remarked that the filters had broken down a while ago. Upon investigation, your team learned the community had not maintained the system and had not been able to restore all the filtration systems, as the cost to fix the filters proved too expensive for the community. During this time, the community had gone back to their old practice of drinking unfiltered water. Half the community now doubts the efficiency of the filters.

Your team needs to offer a recommendation on how to address this situation to your board of directors.

Your Executive Summary should:

- Identify the stakeholders and their interests

- Explain if the company should adopt deontology or a utilitarian approach and why

- Based on the approach selected, apply a formal decision-making process and include an evaluation of possible alternative solutions

- Recommend an ethical course of action based on analysis