tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/218864760 2008-03-21 17:40:06 -0400 H2O-1B <p>Tens of millions of people in Asia are affected by arsenic contaminated groundwater. A partnership between MIT and ENPHO, a Nepali environmental NGO, have invented and widely disseminated the Kanchan Arsenic Filter in Nepal. New work is taking this filter to Bangladesh and Cambodia. This video shows the successful implementation of the Kanchan with financial support from <a href="http://www.globalwatertrust.org/" target="_blank">Global Water Trust</a>.</p> <p>To find out more information on this, click <a href="http://web.mit.edu/watsan/" target="_blank">here</a>. </p> <p>This video is an excerpt from ARSENIC: The Largest Mass Poisoning in History. Produced by <a href="http://www.globalwatertrust.org/" target="_blank">Global Water Trust</a> all rights reserved 2008.</p> 901 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/218843920 2008-03-25 11:11:35 -0400 H2O-1B The MIT Nepal Water Project - 1st days of first year's clean water in the developing world field study. 606 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/218824820 2008-07-21 17:46:57 -0400 MIT Public Service Center Videos <span>An introduction to Sacha Yaku and its work on the potable water system of an indigenous community in Ecuador. Sacha Yaku is now starting an "Art for Water" program to tell the story of Santa Ana in the United States and by selling traditional jewelry and pottery to raise money for the water system. The program was started by a pair of MIT undergraduates in 2006 (Froylan Sifuentes ChemE '09 and Kendra Johnson 1E '09). </span> 461 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/218803820 2008-06-03 11:23:22 -0400 Community Water Treatment <span>An introduction to the work of Sacha Yaku and their work on the potable water system of an indigenous community in Ecuador. The project was started by two MIT undergraduates Kendra Johnson (Environmental Engineering '09) and Froylan Sifuentes (CHemical Engineering '09) through a summer public service center fellowship. After three trips to the community, the water system now serves eighteen families with a regular supply of potable water. As a sustainable source of funding for the water system, Sacha Yaku is now starting an "Art for Water" program to tell the story of Santa Ana in the United States by selling traditional jewelry and pottery to raise money for the water system.</span> 461 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/218783220 2008-03-31 12:31:15 -0400 H2O-1B <p>Video Courtesy of <a href="http://mos.org/" target="_blank">The Museum of Science</a></p><p>CLEAN WATER FOR BILLIONS! </p><p>Safe Sanitation for 2.4 Billion People! </p><p>Water and Sanitation in Developing Countries Project</p> 385 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/218763880 2008-03-11 11:54:31 -0400 chosetec An introduction to some flow visualization techniques used at MIT. These methods help us understand the fluid dynamics of natural and manmade systems. <p> I made this video to compile the sweet videos we've taken over the years. Otherwise they would just be sitting there, you know. </p><p> For more information visit: <br /><a href="http://www-math.mit.edu/~bush/fish.htm">Math Fluids Lab</a><br /><a href="http://scripts.mit.edu/~pekowiki/blaise/">Peko Hosoi's Group</a><br /><a href="http://web.mit.edu/fluids/www/">Hatsopoulos Microfluids Lab</a></p> 316 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/218743220 2008-03-25 11:07:28 -0400 H2O-1B Session: The Next Technological Revolution: Predicting the Technical Future and its Impact on Firms, Organizations and Ourselves. Faculty leader: Rebecca Henderson 267 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/218724040 2008-07-14 13:51:06 -0400 H2O-1B The CNN series "Innovators" spotlights MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Senior Lecturer Susan Murcott and her work to bring clean water to developing countries. It highlights the innovation of the Kanchan [Note: Kanchan should have superscript TM and should be in italics if you can do that] Arsenic Filter, which she, together with a team of Nepali partners and a former student, Tommy Ngai, invented in 2002. The Kanchan [italics] filter removes both arsenic and microbial contamination from drinking water is one example of the pioneering work she and others are engaged in - the design and dissemination of household drinking water treatment and safe storage systems - a new cluster of innovative technologies to bring safe water to people everywhere. See also: <a href="http://web.mit.edu/watsan">http://web.mit.edu/watsan</a> 237 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/218704920 2008-01-16 18:51:34 -0500 professorblue <span>In this podcast we consider the stuff that comes out of your kitchen and bathroom faucets. Professor Blue does a little dance in a huge pipe, too!<br /></span> 212 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/218684140 2008-01-22 15:47:31 -0500 MIT Video Productions <p>Just back from several rainy days in the field, soldiers at Fort Polk in Louisiana were asked what they would wish for if they had a magic wand. In less than a second they replied, "Waterproof everything!"</p><p>Their wish has been taken seriously by Dr. Karen Gleason, MIT Professor of Chemical Engineering, who is working at the MIT Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies to find a way to coat fine objects. Researchers in her lab use a process called hot filament chemical vapor deposition (HFCVD) to deposit nanolayers of polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE, also known as Teflon). The coatings they work on have the same chemical composition as one that Dupont would put on a non-stick frying pan, but they are at least a thousand times thinner.</p><p>The researchers have demonstrated the technique by using a very thin layer of a water-repellent coating to waterproof many kinds of materials without changing the original look or feel. The technique has many potential applications, including fabric coatings for soldier uniforms, coatings for fine wire neural probes, and insulation for integrated circuits. Currently, Gleason is collaborating with Professor Alexander Klibanov of the Department of Chemistry to find a way to combine her team's waterproofing technique with a microbe-killing fabric treatment that Klibanov's group has invented.</p> 194