News J-WAFS in action: A wearable testing kit to check for E. coli in water

Opening Doors Magazine November 26, 2018

Jeffrey Ravel, Professor and Head of the MIT History Faculty, and Susan Murcott, an environmental engineer and Lecturer in MIT’s D-Lab, are leading a project to develop and market simple, low-cost kits to test for the presence of E. coli in drinking water.  The initial focus is on communities in Nepal, with a medium-term goal of distributing the kits in other markets.