Some two billion people in the world lack access to clean drinking water. University of Calgary researcher Dr. Samira Siahrostami, PhD, is determined to help them.
Some two billion people in the world lack access to clean drinking water. University of Calgary researcher Dr. Samira Siahrostami, PhD, is determined to help them.
“I’m really passionate about this issue. We have to do something,” says Siahrostami, assistant professor of physical and theoretical chemistry in the Faculty of Science’s Department of Chemistry.
Now, as part of an international research team, Siahrostami has taken a big step toward providing people in remote and rural locations, such as in developing countries, with clean and safe water.
The team has developed a portable device that uses a cost-effective, efficient carbon-based catalyst material to produce hydrogen peroxide. The hydrogen peroxide can then be used to purify local water sources contaminated by bacteria and other micro-organisms and inorganic pollutants from urban, industrial and agricultural waste.
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