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Lunch-n-Learn presentation by D-Lab's Libby Hsu & Susan Murcott on the themes of their chapters in this recently published textbook.

Join MIT D-Lab for a Lunch-n-Learn to celebrate the publication of a new textbook, Climate Change, Drinking Water Security, and Public Health, and the three chapters authored by D-Labbers! D-Lab Associate Director of Academics Libby Hsu and D-Lab Lecturer Susan Murcott will discuss their chapters and discuss with attendees! A light lunch will be served.

The chapters:

• Drinking Water Status Around the World and Its Effect on Health - Libby Hsu, MIT D-Lab Associate Director of Academics
• Waterless and Low-Water Sanitation Technologies that Improve Quality of Life and Conserve Water Resources - Libby Hsu, MIT D-Lab Associate Director of Academics
• Impact of Climate Change and War on Water, the Environment, and Health in Ukraine - Boris Faybishenko, Chad Cox, Oksana Halych, Volodymyr Korniichuk, Yevgen Matseliuk, Susan Murcott, D-Lab Lecturer, et al.

Libby Hsu graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and received master's degrees in structural engineering and building technology from MIT. She leads D-Lab's academic program by managing its teaching team, creating and promoting a coherent strategy for D-Lab's academic offerings at MIT, aligning D-Lab's educational mission with its research and practice work around the world, and building instructors' capacity to provide transformative educational experiences to their students. Libby is also an educator who teaches D-Lab: Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene and D-Lab: Development; coordinates D-Lab's student work in many countries including Mexico, Colombia, and the Dominican Republic; and trains D-Lab trip leaders who are taking students to the field. She has worked with dozens of students on projects related to sanitation, water quality, education, and participatory design; and is also a first-year adviser.

Susan Murcott an environmental engineer with a focus on water, is a Lecturer in MIT D-Lab where she teaches Thermal Energy Networks for Decarbonization of Campuses, Neighborhoods, and Cities ((EC.716 / EC.786 (G)) and D-Lab: Water, Climate Change, and Health (EC.719/EC.789). She has led MIT student teams in over 25 countries spanning five continents. In 2014-2015, she led the water filter evaluation of the Comprehensive Initiative on Technology Evaluation (CITE), a five-year USAID-funded project. From 2005 to the present, she founded and helped establish the non-profit organization, Pure Home Water, with Ghanaian partners, which has built a ceramic pot filter factory in northern Ghana. She was the principal investigator of a team, in partnership with the Environment and Public Health Organization in Kathmandu, Nepal, that invented and widely disseminated the KanchanTM Arsenic Filter, as well as being involved in MIT-funded emergency relief following the 2015 Nepal earthquake. Murcott is the author of over 50 professional papers as well as the book Arsenic in the World: an International Sourcebook.