The TS Foundation won first prize in the 2011 International Reed Elsevier Environmental Challenge. The 2012 project will install 12 arsenic water filters in rural Cambodia. Over 100 applicants from around the world applied, but it was TS member Sudipta Sarkar’s proposal that took first place. The project is an adaptation of the India arsenic filtration project. The construction of the Aranh School water filter in Cambodia is complete. Already community members are coming into use the filter. Now we will work with the village chief and principal to organize the community around the water filter by forming a water council to manage the system and then try to incorporate the filter into the chemistry classes in the 7th grade!
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Dr. Arup SenguptaArup K. SenGupta is P. C. Rossin Professor and Chairperson of Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at Lehigh University. Archives
March 2015
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