CARBSE Lecture Series on “Inventing environmental technologies for the Bottom of the pyramid some lessons learnt” by Dr. Ashok Gadgil.
Title: Inventing environmental technologies for the Bottom of the pyramid some lessons learnt
Speaker Name: Dr. Ashok Gadgil, Faculty Senior Scientist & Co-Lead Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Date and Time: January 19, 2017, 06:30 p.m.
The “bottom of the pyramid” is the largest and poorest socioeconomic group on the planet billions of individuals who make less than USD 2.50 per day. Many grave problems faced by this population have technological solutions, but while the science is universal, specific technologies and their social placement are commonly quite different from what is applicable in the first world. Prof. Gadgil has a successful history of work in this area. In this seminar he will describe his approach and illustrate it with some of his work towards providing safe drinking water to this population.
Dr. Ashok Gadgil has a doctorate in physics from UC Berkeley. He is a Faculty Senior Scientist and Co-Lead at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He has several patents and inventions to his credit, among them the "UV Waterworks," a technology to inexpensively disinfect drinking water in the developing countries, for which he received the Discover Award in 1996 for the most significant environmental invention of the year, as well as the Popular Science award for "Best of What is New – 1996". In recent years, his research has included ways to inexpensively remove arsenic from groundwater in India and Bangladesh. Dr. Gadgil leads a collaborative, multi-year, multi-institution research program (CBERD) with India on building energy efficiency and (CERC-WET) with China on water-energy technology topics.
http://gadgillab.berkeley.edu/
