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# 2023 Farming Secure Water |
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Farming Secure Water explores the challenges of water management at household level, by pioneering solar water disinfection techniques integrated into building facades for sustainable processing. One in four people live in informal settlements, predicted to rise to one-third by 2050. Additionally, over 40% will reside in water-stressed areas by then. Addressing water security necessitates a decentralised approach, leveraging edible plants and aquaculture for water management, purification, and the production of building materials at a local level.
Inhyeong Jeon is a PhD candidate in the Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering at Yale University. His research is focused on advancing sustainable water supply solutions by developing and optimizing decentralized water treatment technologies. Leveraging computational work, he has conducted technology evaluations and techno-economic assessments, particularly for solar-driven technologies. He has also explored the potential of stimuli-responsive materials as an innovative approach for the chemical-free maintenance of decentralized water systems. more
Anna Dyson is the Hines Professor of Architecture at the Yale Schools of Architecture (YSoA) and Environment (YSE). She is the founding Director of the Yale Center for Ecosystems in Architecture (Yale CEA), a research initiative that integrates interdisciplinary labs across campus to collaborate on the research, development and deployment of novel architectural systems that are focused on the challenge of metabolizing energy, water and materials within architecture in radically new ways. Recipient of the Innovator Award from Architectural Record, Dyson holds many international patents on building systems innovations for the collection and distribution of clean energy, water, air quality and material life cycle more
Jaehong Kim is currently the Professor and Department Chair of Chemical and Environmental Engineering in the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Yale University. Prior to joining Yale University in 2013, he was the Georgia Power Distinguished Professor and the Associate Chair for Undergraduate Programs at the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is interested in diverse aspects of environmental science and engineering, from fundamental photocatalytic and photoluminescent materials chemistry to water quality engineering in the developing world. more
Melanie Derby is an Associate Professor at Kansas State University and runs the Cooling and Heating Innovation Lab. Her research focuses on technical problems in the thermal fluid sciences which have unanswered fundamental problems and applications to industry. Her areas of expertise includes multi-phase flows, phase change, and building energy. She directs a team of talented and motivated graduate and undergraduate students at KSU, and her research group is conducting research on condensation heat transfer, oil-water flows, dehumidification, humidification, and the effects of low humidity on building occupants. more
Juan Estuardo Bocel Pocop is an Engineer in Agroforestry Technology, MSc in science and technology of water resources. Currently a graduate student in Ecology Evolution and Conservation Biology at the University of Nevada, Reno. VIsiting researcher at Atitlan Research Center (Centros de Estudios Atitlan, CEA), main topics: wastewater reuse, Water Quality, hydrology, limnology and ecology. Founder member of Junilja NGO. Interested in citizen science, environmental conservation. From the Mayan Cakchiquel community of Guatemala, enthusiastic and keen to work together with Mayan communities of Atitlán basin, learning from the specific conditions of the basin and providing them with science-based alternatives to improve the quality of life related to the environment. more
Revanth Wubhayavedantapuram is passionate environmental engineering researcher. His primary focus is wastewater treatment, where he leverages his expertise to develop innovative and sustainable solutions. With a strong background in chemical engineering, he is uniquely positioned to tackle the complex challenges of wastewater treatment, contributing to cleaner water resources and a healthier planet. He is passionate about improving water quality and applying chemical engineering principles to address environmental issues. more
Shahnawaz Sinha is a Research Associate Professor in the School of Sustainable Engineering and Built Environment (SSEBE) at Arizona State University. After completing his doctorate, he spent the next 17 years working in academia and industry as an environmental engineer, before joining ASU in Jan 2016. Prior to ASU, he was at the Water Desalination and Reuse Center (WDRC) at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). His primary area of research has been in the area of drinking water, water treatment plant optimization, water quality research, pilot-scale studies, seawater and brackish water desalination, and industrial water treatment.more
Monica Maria Martinez Fausto is a Biologist specialized in limnology. Researcher at Atitlan Research Center (Centros de Estudios Atitlan, CEA), main topics: ecology, plankton, water quality, drinking water. Founder member of IBAGUA NGO and Vice-president of Agualimno NGO. Interested in citizen science, community-based environmental monitoring, environmental restoration, drinking water quality evaluation, development of ecofriendly handmade products among others. Very creative, enthusiastic and keen to work together with communities, learning from them and providing them science-based sustainable alternatives to improve life quality related to environmental issues. more
Mandi Pretorius is an architect and Ph.D. Candidate at the Yale School of Architecture and a researcher with the Yale Center for Ecosystems + Architecture. Addressing global issues in a changing climate, her research explores how constructs between human systems, built and natural environments, shape resource flows and notions of scarcity, access, and need. Towards enabling resource security at the building scale, her research examines how providing shelter and comfort in buildings intersects with interdependent phenomena in the Water-Energy-Food nexus. Her dissertation investigates how the building envelope could provide for the multiple roles of water as a thermodynamic and photoelectric medium, a human need, an equitable scarcity, and a biophilic affordance in the built environment. more
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