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Ning Jiang is a PhD student at UCSB, originally from China who is researching on microbiology and water quality and specifically how fecal bacteria survive outside the gut when excreted in natural aquatic environments. She is developing a bio-sand water filter in collaboration with Safewater International in order to help save thousands of lives of people living in extreme poverty .
Her sustainable, bio sand filter will not only improve the health of thousands of people by providing clean water, it also has the capacity to build enterprise for the local recipients of the filter. It combines sand, gravel, an “army” of bacteria that is naturally introduced into the filter system as water is poured through, and nano-silver to further combat bacteria as it is filtered and captured in the vessel collecting the filtered water. Due to its need for maintenance, education and training are a part of the project as well as the opportunity to help locals build enterprise based on the water filter.
Ning’s project is part of the SciFund Challenge project, a crowd funding website where scientists from around the world are discussing their research projects, teaching the public and gaining funding for continuing their important work. ScFund utilizes RocketHub as it’s crowdfunding portal, and Ning’s project is listed as Save Lives One Filter at a Time.
To learn more about the project and get resources to participate, click here.
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