A group of researchers has found a way to utilize mainstream technology to analyze a public health concern. They are using a Smartphone camera with a special attachment and some pretty neat chemistry concepts to detect Hg2+ in water samples. It is portable and relatively inexpensive compared to spectroscopic methods from what the article says. …
Here’s a short update on the arsenic problem in Bangladesh, and how the SONO filter alleviates the problem (click the title above to view the 2:51 minute video). With over 300,000 SONO filters already in place, that leaves some 75 million people in Bangladesh still in need of its benefits. Of course, there are many …
PBS‘s Spencer Michels reports on the story of how a California social entrepreneur sees the chance to increase access to clean water in Kenya through the use of foot-pumps. In this segment, there are many lessons for us on how to achieve our goals in the field. I recommend you watch this report: Related articles …
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27, 2009 — Scientists and engineers will face a host of obstacles over the next decade in providing clean water to millions of people caught up in a water shortage crisis, a panel of scientists and engineers said today at a briefing at the Broadcast Center of the National Press Building on the …
Substantial work ahead for water issues, say scientists at ACS’ Final Report briefing Read More »