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Researcher: Dr. Arif Mohiuddin Sikdar
Waterborne diseases are endemic in Bangladesh. Hundreds
of thousands of persons die every year as a result of
these diseases. Water is often contaminated with arsenic
and other pathogenic germs. The poor suffer the most
from the scarcity of pure drinking water. Thus the need
is felt for a low cost affordable water purifier/filter.
The main objective of the researcher, Dr Arif Mohiuddin,
is to develop such a low cost earthenware/ceramic water
purifier/filter. The filter would also be useful at
the time of natural disasters, particularly during the
flood season when pure drinking water becomes the scarcest
of commodities. Another objective of the project is
to train local potters to develop pitchers/ containers
for both unfiltered and filtered water.
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