Archive for the ECAR & ARUBA Press Category

Gadgil student researchers win the EPA Phase I award!

In Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) People, Prosperity, and the Planet (P3) design competition, our research team was accepted to phase I of the program to […]

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Gadgil Lab Undergraduate Students were not stopped by the Pandemic

Samyukta Shrivatsa and Aarti Visswanathanwere the lower division winners for the distinguished Charlene Conrad Liebau Library Prize for Undergraduate Research on “Exploring a Decision-Trigger for […]

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ECAR and ACAIE featured on Berkeley Engineering website

Read about the Gadgil Lab’s history and progress in providing efficient and affordable arsenic removal technologies and providing clean drinking water to people in India […]

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Sara Glade, Gabriel Lobo, Bavisha Kalyan, Arkadeep Kumar, and Dana Hernandez at the 2019 Bay Area WASH Symposium

Water group researchers presented at the Bay Area Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) symposium held on May 3, 2019 at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Lab Water Technology Among Best in the World

Lab Water Technology Among Best in the World

Water-purifying technology developed at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (Berkeley Lab) was named among only five in the world that meet current international standards in a […]

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Sara Glade & Dana Hernandez at AWWA CA-NV Sp 2019

Sara Glade and Dana Hernandez attended the American Water Works Association, California-Nevada Section Spring 2019 Conference. Sara Glade presented her work on a scalable ECAR […]

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Combating arsenic-water crisis in rural India

Combating arsenic-water crisis in rural India

“The Better India” news outlet reported Gadgil’s lab technological innovation which has been providing drinking water to rural communities in West Bengal at just 60 […]

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Ashok Gadgil gave a talk at Subir & Malini Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh Studies

Ashok Gadgil was asked by the Subir and Malini Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh Studies, Institute for South Asia Studies(ISAS) at UC Berkeley to deliver a lecture on […]

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Engineering water research opportunity in India for Spring 2016

  Spend six months working towards arsenic-safe drinking water in rural India Over 100 million people in rural South Asia have only arsenic-contaminated  water to […]

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ECAR team at Indo-US Science and Technology Form (IUSSTF) Tech Expo meeting at Greater Noida in India

L-R: Professor Ashok Gadgil, Dr Susan Amrose, Professor Joyashree Roy, Mr Raja Mohanty ( 18th Nov 2014)    

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ECAR licensed by Luminous Water Technologies

ECAR has been licensed exclusively for India and Bangladesh by Luminuous Water Technologies. Please read more in the LBNL press release here.

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2 videos about ECAR!

Check out our 2 videos about ECAR, the arsenic remediation technology designed and developed by the Water Group! Presentation of ECAR 600 L prototype:   […]

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Reed Elsevier Environmental Challenge second place winner – Gadgil Lab, UC Berkeley

Reed Elsevier Environmental Challenge second place winner – Gadgil Lab, UC Berkeley

          The long-awaited list of winners of the prestigious Reed Elsevier Environmental Challenge has been announced September 3rd in Stockholm during […]

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DIL-Explore grant awarded to Caroline Delaire and Katyayani Cherukumilli

DIL-Explore grant awarded to Caroline Delaire and Katyayani Cherukumilli

The DIL-Explore grant is a 5k travel grant provided by the Development Impact Lab (DIL) to support early-stage research in the field of development engineering. It especially […]

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Caroline Delaire receives a Dow Sustainability Innovation Student Challenge Award

Graduate student Caroline Delaire, a member of the ECAR team, has been selected as the 2012 Runner-Up for the Dow Sustainability Innovation Student Challenge Award […]

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ECAR team wins the Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water!

  We are happy to report that five members of the ECAR team – Ashok Gadgil, Susan Addy, Joyashree Roy, Robert Kostecki, and Case van […]

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600L ECAR prototype arrives in Kolkata for field trials

A 600 liter ECAR prototype has been fully fabricated and initial tests are very positive. It is being shipped to Kolkata where it will stay […]

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Chris and Siva leave for Mumbai

Chris and Siva have left for Mumbai to fabricate a 500 liter ECAR prototype. In a few months, the completed prototype will be ready for […]

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Two visiting scholars arrive to design and construct a 500L ECAR prototype

We are very happy to welcome two recently graduated students – Christopher Orr of the University of Toronto and Siva Rama Satyam Bandaru of the […]

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ECAR team present at 35th annual WEDC conference in Loughborough, UK

July 2011: Susan Addy presented a paper on ECAR at the 35th annual WEDC conference at Loughborough University. Conference proceedings can be found at:  S.E.A. […]

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