Videos

View our most recent presentations for Pure Home Water on YouTube Video:

"Women and Water: Access and Scarcity" --Nov. 2012
"Pure Home Water, Ghana: AfriClay Filters" --Nov. 2012
"H20-1B"-- March 2010

View video collection on MIT TechTV - H₂O-1B

The CNN series "Innovators" spotlights MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Senior Lecturer Susan Murcott and her work to bring clean water to developing countries. It highlights the innovation of the Kanchan [Note: Kanchan should have superscript TM and should be in italics if you can do that] Arsenic Filter, which she, together with a team of Nepali partners and a former student, Tommy Ngai, invented in 2002. The Kanchan [italics] filter removes both arsenic and microbial contamination from drinking water is one example of the pioneering work she and others are engaged in - the design and dissemination of household drinking water treatment and safe storage systems - a new cluster of innovative technologies to bring safe water to people everywhere.

"Clean Water for 1 Billion People: Boston Museum of Science Video on the MIT Master of Environmental Engineering Projects in Developing Countries"

"First Days - First Household Drinking Water Treatment Systems in Nepal"

Arsenic Poisoning and the Kanchan Arsenic Filter

Sloan 50th Anniversary - the MIT Arsenic Filter

The Nepal Water Project - MIT Graduation Video (2003)

Nerinx Hall High School from Webster Groves, Missouri, received a 2006 InvenTeams grant from the Lemelson-MIT Program to invent the Water Treatment and Transportation Apparatus (WTTA). In this video, the InvenTeam presents its prototype at MIT, upon completion of the grant. Inspired by two students who visited southern Mexico during a spring-break service trip, this device is designed to ease the burden on women who are tasked with hauling five-gallon buckets of water to their homes and provide cleaner water for their households' use.

"Guatemala/safe drinking water" 2:49 - CNN's Harris Whitbeck reports on a simple and effective way to handle environmental issues in Guatemala. (cnn.com)