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GCPJU>> WORKSHOPS ORGANISED BY GLOBAL CHANGE PROGRAMME
Concept Note
Providing access to arsenic free water though
technically feasible but remains to be resolved
with 100% coverage in a sustainable manner
despite two decades of very focused attempt. Our
past studies at GCP-JU have shown that
technology development, testing and human well
being assessment have all been carried out in
disjoint fashion so far.
We want to use the synergies between human
well-being studies of Global Change Programme-JU
based on socio-economic surveys at Murshidabad
and technology development of LBNL-ECAR.
The main purpose of the meeting is to explore
possibility of collaboration with local
stakeholders to test the feasibility of
LBNL-ECAR prototype. For the trial, what is
needed is to find local logistical support and
permission to set up a small station near a
contaminated tube well for the technical tests.
Both technical and socio-economic data will be
used to understand the wellbeing impact of the
new technology.
The goal is to set up a demonstration project in
summer 2010. The demonstration project will be
formal ownership of a local partner organization
that is interested in taking the technology to
scale up. The demonstration project will involve
a larger installation than the prototype of the
technology and the serving of clean water to the
community free of charge. This will be
accompanied by training and education campaign
at the village.
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Workshop on
“Issue Arsenic: Sustaining Technological
Solution for Human Wellbeing”
Date: 10th June, 2009
Venue:
Vivekananda Hall, Jadavpur University
Kolkata, India
Programme Schedule
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10:30 |
Registration |
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11:00 – 11:15 |
Welcome Address and Presentation on
‘Arsenic in water and Impact on Human
Wellbeing’
By Prof. Joyashree Roy, Coordinator
Global Change Programme, and Professor
of Economics, Jadavpur University,
Kolkata |
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11:15 – 12:00 |
Presentation of a New Economically
Effective Solution
By Prof Ashok Gadgil, Senior Scientist,
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
& Professor of Environmental
Engineering, University of California,
Berkeley
&
Dr. Susan Addy, Post Doctoral Fellow,
Department of Environmental Engineering,
University of California, Berkeley
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12:00- 13:00 |
Question & Answer Session |
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