In collaboration with NC Safewater, A&WMA, and COPRI, the Global WaSH Student Chapter hosted a series of speakers and events related to environmental sustainability for a full week of learning, fun and prizes! On April
On April 16th, 2021, the Global WaSH Student Chapter hosted its first graduate student panel! We invited 4 graduate students from NCSU to talk about their current research in water, sanitation, and hygiene and related
In collaboration with EWB-NCSU, the Global WaSH Student Chapter hosted Jim Lane and Naomi Korir from Sanivation on February 2nd, 2021. Sanivation is a Kenyan based sanitation company that’s pushing the boundaries in waste management
On October 21st, we hosted Dr. Joe Brown, an environmental engineering professor at UNC-Chapel Hill. During the virtual event, Dr. Brown discussed the roles, responsibilities, and opportunities for engineers to work in global public health
WaSH Wednesdays connected students at NC State with practitioners, industry professionals, and researchers internationally over WaSH issues through webinars. We had two amazing speakers this year and their talks focused on public health and current
This was our chapter’s second year! It’s been an unusual year but we still managed to hold our events virtually. We had the following events involving students and speakers from multiple disciplines: WaSH Wednesdays Graduate
Sulabh is a social service organization working in the sanitation sector. Here, they view ‘toilet’ not just as a ‘toilet’. It has aesthetic, commercial, and social values behind it. I had the opportunity to interview
Global WaSH SC collaborated with faculty cluster at NC State, Duke WaSH- AID, and Triangle Environmental to organize World Toilet Day in Durham. We enjoyed the fun trivia events there!
The student chapter was founded this year. We had registered it as a ‘non-profit’ institute and had taken all set-up activities. We had the following events involving students from multiple disciplines: Kick-Off Event Networking over
Our first meeting! We gathered in Mann Hall to finally all meet in person, set the tone for the year, and get to know one another. Gracie Hornsby, the Vice President gave a short presentation
Er. Ramesh Bamble (Ex. Deputy Municipal Commissioner, MCGM) is the chairman of the Indian Water Works Association’s Mumbai center and is working on a World Bank-funded project under the government of Maharashtra for providing water
Mr. Anand Jagtap (Ex. Officer on Special Duty, MCGM) is currently pursuing his Ph.D. from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences. He has worked with more than 850 community-based organizations that run the community toilet
WaSH Wednesdays connected students at NC State with practitioners, industry professionals, and researchers internationally over WaSH issues through webinars. We had two amazing speakers this year and their talks focused on the sanitation system and
On March 2nd, 2020, we hosted Dr. Lena Trotochaud, a Research Scientist from Duke Center for WaSH-AID. Over lunch, she spoke to students about her work which included physico/electro or chemical methods for remediation of
In collaboration with the Global WasH Faculty Cluster, the Global WasH Student Chapter got the opportunity to host Dr. Evan Thomas, Director of the Mortenson Center at UC Boulder for a lunch, on February 14th,