Congratulations to our Dhaka / Engineers for a Sustainable World project team (http://stanforddhakawater.wordpress.com/#), who were awarded a first place win and
a $20k prize this evening in the Social Entrepreneurship Challenge
sponsored by BASES (Business Association of Stanford Entrepreneurial
Students)!
This recognition comes on the heels of the team being recommended for an EPA P3 grant for their work earlier this month.
The
team has been working very hard over the past two quarters to develop
an in-line chlorinator appropriate for low-income urban neighborhoods
that rely on shared water points for their drinking water supply. This
summer they will field test their prototype in the slums of Dhaka,
Bangladesh, in collaboration with the International Center for Diarrheal
Disease Research. Their technology has the potential to benefit not
only the 10 million slum dwellers of Dhaka, but the half a billion urban
residents worldwide whose piped networks deliver water rendered unsafe
by biological contamination.
Congratulations to team Dhaka on a terrific job!!
Keegan Cooke
Kara Bennett
Valerie Bauza
Yoshika Crider
Nabil Mansouri
Isaac Madan
Olivia Vagelos
Camil Diaz
Dr. Amy Pickering (mentor)
Eng. Suprio Das (collaborator)
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