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Abdul Latif Jameel Water & Food Systems Lab

Highlights and Impacts

Project

Sustainable hydrogel microparticles for the removal of micropollutants from water

Event

J-WAFS Visiting Scholar Lecture Series on the Nile basin and the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD)

Project

Recipient of the 2022 J-WAFS Grant for Transforming Animal Agriculture Systems announced

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J-WAFS to send students to Stockholm World Water Week

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MIT Water Affordability Workshop explores solutions to America’s water affordability crisis

News

This portable, solar-powered device purifies seawater on demand

Latest News

J-WAFS spinout company Takachar develops technology to convert agricultural waste into clean-burning fuel

Kevin Kung's Takachar technology emerged from a class project and was inspired by his first-hand experience during a trip to Kenya.

J-WAFS PI develops an underwater camera for monitoring ocean pollution or the health of fish raised in aquaculture farms

Fadel Adib and his colleagues have developed a battery-free wireless underwater camera with applications in monitoring the impacts of…

J-WAFS funded project develops a passive cooling system for food preservation

A system designed by J-WAFS PIs uses passive cooling to preserve food crops and supplement conventional air conditioners in buildings…

A new MIT study shows how sources of state and sensory information converge to guide food-seeking behavior

A study conducted using worms showed that in an olfactory neuron called AWA, many sources of state and sensory information converge to…