Ashok Gadgil's use of electrochemistry to remove arsenic in South Asian water is now being implemented in rural American water systems.
This turn of events is a prime example of what business and engineering scholars are calling “reverse” or “boomerang” innovations—whereby products and services developed as inexpensive models to meet the needs of developing nations are then repackaged or remodeled as low-cost alternatives for developed markets.
Gadgil, the Andrew and Virginia Rudd Family Foundation Professor of Safe Water and Sanitation, is a member of CEE's Environmental Engineering faculty.
See Berkeley Lab Water Technology "Boomerangs" from Bangladesh to California (Blum Center)