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Date of Submission: 21MAR20

Water Pollution Ted Talk

A Young Scientist’s Quest for Clean Water.

Were you moved to action by the presentation? Why or why not?

This Ted Talk video really caught my attention because I was truly moved how the young presenter’s enthusiasm and care for humanity has taken her down a path of trying to solve the water pollution problem in the world. Deepika Kurup is an inventor, scientist, and has been passionate about solving the global water crisis ever since she was in middle school, as she was exposed to the water problem at a very early age while visiting family in India.

At 00:04 of the video, Deepika described how every summer, her family would travel across the world, 3,000 miles away to the culturally diverse country of India. Now, India is a country infamous for its scorching heat and humidity. Her parents would constantly remind her to only drink boiled or bottled water, because in India, the water is often contaminated. She saw children, who looked the same age as me, filling up these clear plastic bottles with dirty water from streams on the roadside. Watching these kids forced to drink water that I felt was too dirty to touch changed her perspective on the world. So, after returning home one summer in eighth grade, she decided that to combine the passion for solving the global water crisis with my interest in science. Deepika launched a lab in family garage to solve water pollution.

How did it compare to the information you already learned? Did you learn anything new? If so, what?

03:12 of the video, mentions a water purifying process called solar disinfection, or SODIS, which is used to purify water. In SODIS, I learned something new that I really cannot compare to anything I’ve seen before. The process consists of a simple clear plastic bottle which is filled with contaminated water and then exposed to sunlight for six to eight hours. The UV radiation from the sun destroys the DNA of these harmful pathogens and decontaminates the water.

What would the presenter have had to do or say or share (data) to make you change your mind and do something about the problem?

The Presenter didn’t really state any statistics or facts, but I felt like she was genuine in her in her beliefs toward solving a polluted water crisis and in the closing of the video at 07:23 she states that “water isn't just the universal solvent. water is a universal human right”. “And Alone, a single drop of water can't do much, but when many drops come together, they can sustain life on our planet. Just as water drops come together to form oceans, I believe that we all must come together when tackling this global problem”.

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