If you missed Ashok Gadgil's CEE Distinguished Lecture, you can view it here. Prof. Gadgil repeated his lecture in CE 11: Engineered Systems and Sustainability.
CEE sponsored its first CEE Distinguished Lecture on April 30. The honored speaker was Dr. Ashok Gadgil, Andrew and Virginia Rudd Family Foundation Professor of Safe Water and Sanitation, and Director of the Environmental Energy Technologies Division of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Dr. Gadgil spoke on "Innovating Technologies for the Poorest Two Billion."
From his substantial experience in technical, economic, and policy research on energy efficiency and its implementation particularly in developing countries, Dr. Gadgil described 2 recent technology innovations that could improve the lives of ten—possibly hundreds—of millions of people among the poorest 2 billion people on the planet. Both technologies have emerged in the last few years from focused, goal-driven research by teams of creative, hard-working researchers in the Gadgil laboratory and in the field.
The first technology innovation is the Berkeley-Darfur Stove, which is an inexpensive, fuel-efficient biomass stove for use by displaced women and girls in Darfur, Sudan. The second is Electrochemical Arsenic Remediation (ECAR), which affordably removes arsenic from the groundwater supplies used for drinking water in Bangladesh and neighboring regions.