CNS Seminar (In-house)
Casey Walsh will give a talk entitled: "Filtering Out the Social: Nanotechnology and Water Treatment in Mexico."
In this talk I discuss the role of nanotechnology in infrastructures that manage water quality in Mexico. Faced with serious contamination problems in both surface and subsoil water sources, social movements that demand environmental justice, and extreme economic and technical difficulties in assuring water quality through conventional means, hopes have turned to new technologies that treat water at the nano scale. The case of the contamination of Rio Santiago by landfill leachates in Guadalajara, Mexico, is considered.