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Doug Engelbart
Thomas Fogarty
Ashok Gadgil
Stephanie Kwolek
 Ashok Gadgil Biography A UV Waterworks system was installed in February 2000 in the village of San Ysidro Gallinero in Guerrero, Mexico. Patents This schematic shows a UV Waterworks installation when a pressurized supply of water is available. The supply pressure is used to filter turbidity from the water. Videos A UV Waterworks unit installed outside of a kitchen at an AIDS hospice near Durban, South Africa. Diagrams
In 1997, one of Gadgil's UV Waterworks systems was installed at a hospice for HIV-positive children in Durban, South Africa.

In 1997, one of Gadgil's UV Waterworks systems was installed at a hospice for HIV-positive children in Durban, South Africa.
Of Ashok Gadgil's four U.S. patents, the most far reaching is for the UV water disinfector. His other devices target airborne rather than waterborne pollution.

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UV water disinfector
Patent 5780860, Issued July 14, 1998

Apparatus for treating environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) particle and gas-phase contaminants
Patent 5678576, Issued October 21, 1997

Doug Engelbart Thomas Fogarty Ashok Gadgil Stephanie Kwolek Paul MacCready
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