Great Throughts Treasury
This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Sonaar Luthra
American Writer, Educator, CEO and Co-Founder of Water Canary, a water-testing device that collects real-time water-quality data from the field
"I wanted to come up with some way of becoming what I was calling an 'urban planner for the global village.' And ... I fell in love with circuitry and with making tangible objects that had real functionality. Next thing I knew, I found myself in a class called Design for UNICEF, taught by Clay Shirky in association with UNICEF?s Innovations Lab."
"The Water Canary [is] a fast, cheap device that answers an important question: Is this water contaminated?"
"We've seen how distributed networks, big data and information can transform society. I think it's time for us to apply them to water."
"I wanted to see what was possible with water, and I was lucky to have an incredible team and the support of faculty that were willing to take on such a huge challenge. We started off as novices but we all became water experts in the process."