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She says “that time I realised that water also inspired Deepika to create something that
affects the health of women and how women would improve that global water crisis.
can contribute to the economy because instead “Just realizing how much of an impact water
of spending time with family and working and has on everyday lives of millions of people
raising money woman have to walk hours on around the world is what drew me to this
end everyday to go to collect water.”this problem”, says Deepika.
What Deepika Developed Awards
In 2016 Deepika founded Catalyst for
world water, a social enterprise which • She go to show
is focused on expanding her water her invention to
purification, invention and distributing Barack Obama in
it across the globe to broaden access to 2012 and won a
clean water.She developed a water slew of awards
purification system that harnesses solar including
energy to remove contaminants from ‘America's Top
water. Young Scientist
Award 2012’.
Kurup’s initial idea is based on using a
Photo Catalytic compound for water • Again in 2012, she got Discovery Education
purification. This Photocatalyst is a 3M Young Scientist Award for photo catalytic
substance that reacts with water impurities compound for water purification.
when energyzed by the sun that also
filters the water.This composite made • 2014 United States President’s Environmental
up of titanium dioxide and zinc oxide Youth Award.
,hollow glass microsphere and Portland
cement. • 2014 US Stockholm Junior Water Prize.
She improved her method and after 3
years developed a photo catalytic • 2014 Environmental Challenge Award.
composite using sand, titanium oxide ,
portland cement and silver nitrate . • 2014 International Young Eco Hero award.
Exposure of the filtered water to the
sunlight with the photo catalytic • 2015 Forbes” 30 under 30: Energy”
composite disc resulted in 100% inactivation
of total caliform bacteria in just 15 • National geographic Explorer Award
minutes. Another advantage is that her winner in 2015 Google Science Fair.
catalyst is reusable.“A catalyst doesn't
get used up in the reaction” she says. Today she is working as a young hope and an
inspiration to all the young minds who want
to shine like a star in the sky of inventions.
Sunil Kumar She is really a motivational figure to all our
Anshu
Mahato
PGT Hindi students .
GGSSS She has proved that inspite of studies ,we should
Khajuri Khas try magic of science through experiments that
have ability to change the world.
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