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Research scope:

• Address deficiencies of standard monitoring of development programs through surveys that are unreliable and often resultÌýin over-reporting
• Instrumented monitoring can provide objective data points
• Monitoring used forÌýEcoZoom high efficiency stoves and LifeStraw Family Water Filter

• Portland State University
• London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
• DelAgua Rwanda Ltd.
• Christina Barstow

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Research scope:

• Develop innovative toilet conceptÌýthat is waterless, off-grid, affordable and creates useful products out of human waste.
• Built a Phase I research prototypeÌýto present at the World Toilet Fair in New Delhi, India in 2014.
• Sol-Char Toilet uses concentrated solar power transmitted through fiberoptic cables to convert human waste to char, a benign, odorless, charcoal-like product that can be used as solid fuel or fertilizer.

Funded by:Ìý

• Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's Reinvent the Toilet Challenge

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Research scope:Ìý

• Provide reliable, clean drinking water using UV disinfection while creating local business opportunities for manufacturing, marketing, and maintaining the systems.Ìý
• Prototype developed and tested using simple construction techniques and materials widely available in developing communities.
• Needs further testing, market study, feasibility test and business model, field testing.

Research scope:

• Evaluation of Community Water Treatment Plants (pictured) and Point-of-Use Sawyer Filters in Amazon communities
• Chemical and operational water treatment optimization
• Water treatment plant operator training
• Water quality testing
• 22 graduate students participated over four year project

Funded by:

• National Science Foundation International Research Experiences for Students (NSF-IRES)

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