Did you know that the water treatment biochar can be used to remove chemical pollutants from water, and can also be made using local, inexpensive materials? In a new webinar hosted by the HWTS Network, you’ll learn how biochar works and how it can be integrated with other treatment steps, like biosand filtration. Our featured speaker will discuss onsite manufacture, and ways the biochar process can be varied to address different types of contaminants. You’ll also get a sneak preview of the manual, A Field Guide to Biochar Water Treatment.
Household and community water treatment with biochar for removal of chemical contaminants
Tuesday, November 2, 2021
10 - 11 am EDT /15 - 16 CET
Delivered in English
Can’t attend live? The webinar will be available on demand. If you register, we’ll send you a link to view the recording. You might also be interested in watching this video provided by CAWST.
About the speaker
Josh Kearns studied chemistry and environmental engineering at Clemson (BS), biogeochemistry at Berkeley (MS), and environmental engineering at CU-Boulder (PhD), and worked intermittently as a visiting researcher at NC State University. He has fifteen years' experience working on WASH and appropriate technologies at the grassroots level with communities in southeast Asia and Latin America. Josh serves as Chief Technical Advisor to Caminos de Agua (Mexico), and is Director of Science for Aqueous Solutions. He lives with his wife and their many critters on a small hilltop farm in southern Appalachia.