Instrumentation, Measurement and Incentive Innovation Toward Global Water Security

Speaker: Whitney Knopp, EVEN PhD Candidate, Thomas group Seminar: Instrumentation, Measurement and Incentive Innovation Toward Global Water Security Abstract: Water insecurity is an increasing global threat, dominantly influenced by fecal contamination of drinking and recreational waters. Over half the World's population, more than 4 billion people, still lack access to safe drinking water; existing, unequally distributed global water quality data and context-relevant technologies are insufficient to characterize the extent of this challenge or adequately begin to address it. Waters impaired with fecal contamination drive public and environmental health risks, regulatory violations and exacerbate existing structural inequity. This thesis investigates how real- or near-time sensor-based monitoring for microbial contamination may offer emerging technological and policy tools to improve global water security. Through deployments of the Lume, a fluorescence-based sensor package fused with...