13-Year-Old Odisha Girl Wins At 2015 Google Science Fair For Her Water Purifier Project

We Indians love science and technology. But inspiration is what keeps us going. As far as science is concerned, Indians are making the right sounds, across the world.

Not just Sundar Pichai and Satya Nadella, there are other Indians as well, who are making our country proud in the international arena.

Lalita Prasida Sripada Srisai, a class IX student from Damanjodi in Koraput district, in Odisha, won the ‘Community Impact Award’ at the prestigious Google Science Fair in California.

Fighting for winds of change, this 9th grader from Delhi Public School Damanjodi, in Odisha, developed a project that has the power to make a practical difference in the community by addressing an environmental and health challenge.

Her project, ‘Low Cost Bio-Adsorbent’ is a cost effective and simple technique that can immobilize contaminants in domestic and industrial effluents as well as in ponds, reservoirs and water tanks.

She used corn cobs in her projects and her experiment proves that corn cobs could clean water up to 80% because they happen to be suitable  adsorbents and have high mechanical strength.

The poor living in rural areas of Odisha still don’t have access to pure water and she believes her water purifier if produced in large scale will be of great help to them.

Now, it’s your turn to change the world.

News Source: The Hindu