Cheap, Portable Water Testing for Africa

We are designing a small but powerful device to test water quality at the final source of a communal drinking supply. The inventive use of low-cost UV sources and sensors should allow us to create a cheap and easy-to-operate piece of technology usable by a local population and NGOs for safety purposes and research collection.

Our work is split into two phases: experiment with low-cost sensors and spectrometry designs to accurately detect pathogens, and determine how best to disseminate the information gathered in a manner that is beneficial to multiple agents.
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An ongoing list of our materials as they are produced

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Who are we

We are students at Tisch's Interactive Telecommunications Program, in Clay Shirky's Spring Semester 2009 Design For UNICEF class.

Sonaar Luthra
Zoe Fraade-Blanar
Estee Wah
John Dimatos
Mitch Said
Technical Advisor: Eric Rosenthal

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