Global Oneness Engineering: Three Examples of Global Environmental Health Practice from Nepal and Ghana 9/23

in GH Events
September 23rd, 2016

THIS WEEK’S: Gijs van Seventer Environmental Health Seminar

12:45 pm-1:45pm Friday, September 23, 2016
L210

Speaker Susan Murcott D-Lab, MIT, will describe her engineering practice by defining “Global Oneness Engineering” and discussing the work in which she and her community partners and students engage. After conducting water quality tests and discovering arsenic in Nepal in 2001, the design and implementation of an innovative arsenic filter became the chief focus. Microbiologically unsafe surface waters in Ghana led to the construction of a ceramic pot filter factory to provide safe drinking water and good jobs. Murcott’s latest work with a Cambridge start-up and local partners in Ghana involves measurement of carbon flux and translating that into both financial products and water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) solutions. Susan Murcott is a water/wastewater engineer and a lecturer at MIT. She has led international public health engineering projects and mentored graduate student teams in water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) for the past twenty-five years on five continents. For more information: https://d-lab.mit.edu/people/Susan_Murcott