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D-Lab: WASH

 

 

Transforming lives by providing safe drinking water

Susan Murcott has spent her career at MIT dedicated to others, both in expanding access to sanitation and mentoring the next generation of STEM innovators. Credits:Photo courtesy of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

News | Mar 22, 2021 | Andi Sutton | Susanna Maize | Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab

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Transforming lives by providing safe drinking water

Startup empowers women to improve access to safe drinking water

Saha Global works with villages to determine a price for clean water that everyone can afford while also fairly compensating the entrepreneurs for their work. Credits: Photo courtesy of Saha Global.

News | Mar 08, 2021 | Zach Winn | MIT News Office

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Startup empowers women to improve access to safe drinking water

Water and Community in Cape Town, South Africa

Community members who participated in the focus group with blog post author and MIT graduate student Abigail Anderson (front, second from right), Cape Town, South Africa.

Blog | Feb 07, 2019 | Abigail Anderson

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Water and Community in Cape Town, South Africa

MIT Independent Activities Period 2019: 40 D-Lab students in 7 countries!

D-Lab students and local community members testing a bean thresher, Botswana. January 2019.

Blog | Jan 15, 2019 | Libby Hsu, Lecturer & D-Lab Academic Program Manager

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MIT Independent Activities Period 2019: 40 D-Lab students in 7 countries!

More than 30 from MIT [including a D-Lab: WASH alumna and D-Lab Scale-Ups Fellow] named to Forbes 30 Under 30 lists

More than 30 from MIT [including a D-Lab: WASH alumna and D-Lab Scale-Ups Fellow] named to Forbes 30 Under 30 lists

News | Dec 07, 2018 | Jason London | MIT Alumni Association

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More than 30 from MIT [including a D-Lab: WASH alumna and D-Lab Scale-Ups Fellow] named to Forbes 30 Under 30 lists

Susan Murcott: D-Lab and MIT IDEAS Global Challenge: Lessons in Mentoring, Transdisciplinarity and Real World Engineering for Sustainable Development

MIT students Coyin Oh (’15) and Yiping Xing (’15), together with the Tamale, Ghana University of Development Studies sanitation club students, plus Susan Murcott. Coyin’s and Yiping’s team “Hope in Flight” won a 2013 IDEAS award for their sanitation solution to turn human waste into animal protein.

Blog | Jun 30, 2016 | Nancy Adams

Susan Murcott: D-Lab and MIT IDEAS Global Challenge: Lessons in Mentoring, Transdisciplinarity and Real World Engineering for Sustainable Development

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