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Indian Water  Warriors  ?

Yesterday , I wrote :

Replicating  Nature  ?

https://myblogepage.blogspot.com/2018/03/waterwars-worldwaterday.html

which contained a reference to an Indian working on extracting clean drinking water from dry desert air – and using only sunlight as energy

He is :

·         Sameer R. Rao   [   srrao@mit.edu  ]

 

 

Today , I came across another Indian also working on the same problem – also in USA

 

 

He is :

 

Akshay  Deshmukh   [  akshay.deshmukh@yale.edu  ]

 

 

Ref :

 

·         https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=SxKsRlUAAAAJ&hl=en

 

·         https://elimelechlab.yale.edu/people/akshay-deshmukh

 

 

And his work ( getting clean water from dry desert air – using Solar energy ) is at :

 

Using Solar Power To Bring Clean Drinking Water To Remote Areas

https://scienceblog.com/499980/using-solar-power-to-bring-clean-drinking-water-to-remote-areas/

It speaks poorly, of our University System which fails to encourage bright Indian minds to work here and instead go to American Universities , to conduct research which has greatest – and immediate – practical impact on the health of millions of Indians

I hope this is one aspect that Shri Prakas Javadekarji would want to examine – and set right – while granting greater autonomy to our Universities

 

In the meantime , will Shri Nitin Gadkariji , consider sending emails to these “ Indian Water Warriors “ , requesting them to immediately return to India and promise them all help to continue their research here ?

 

May be Shri Gadkariji could offer them a financial “ Grant “ , to set up a JV with ISRO ( our own pioneer in Solar Power technology ) , for commercializing this technology !

A phone call would be faster and much more effective  !

 

25  March  2018

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