{"id":2584,"date":"2016-03-04T11:52:48","date_gmt":"2016-03-04T16:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/india\/?p=2584"},"modified":"2016-04-01T11:00:04","modified_gmt":"2016-04-01T15:00:04","slug":"making-connections-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/india\/2016\/making-connections-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Connections in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2730 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/india\/wp-content\/uploads\/india-centre-1200x680-1.jpg\" alt=\"india-centre-1200x680-1\" width=\"1200\" height=\"680\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/india\/wp-content\/uploads\/india-centre-1200x680-1.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/india\/wp-content\/uploads\/india-centre-1200x680-1-160x91.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/india\/wp-content\/uploads\/india-centre-1200x680-1-240x136.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/india\/wp-content\/uploads\/india-centre-1200x680-1-768x435.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/india\/wp-content\/uploads\/india-centre-1200x680-1-400x227.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/india\/wp-content\/uploads\/india-centre-1200x680-1-360x204.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/>Carleton Centre Maximizing Research<\/h2>\n<p>By Dan Rubinstein<br \/>\nPhotos by Chris Roussakis<\/p>\n<hr class=\"hr--red hr--short\" \/>\n<p>More than 1.25 billion people live in India \u2014 one-sixth of the world\u2019s population. It is a country in the midst of enormous social, economic and technological change.<\/p>\n<p>To help manage this transition, India\u2019s Ministry of Urban Development has launched a multibillion-dollar Smart Cities initiative, with the goal of providing 100 cities with important infrastructure and services, such as an adequate supply of clean water, robust digital connectivity and efficient public transportation.<\/p>\n<p>Banu \u00d6rmeci, a professor in Carleton\u2019s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Canada Research Chair in Wastewater Treatment Engineering, is an expert in small-scale wastewater treatment systems in developing counties and remote communities.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00d6rmeci is already active overseas, chairing the International Water Association\u2019s sludge management group.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Her work could help Smart Cities address the water supply and sanitation needs of dozens of rapidly growing cities, but India can be a difficult landscape to navigate for foreign researchers and companies.<\/p>\n<p>Enter Carleton\u2019s Canada-India Centre for Excellence in Science, Technology, Trade and Policy, which is headquartered in the River Building. \u00d6rmeci is working with the centre to help bring new and innovative water and wastewater treatment technologies to India. This could entail deploying a technology that already exists or developing a new low-cost, low-energy water or wastewater treatment method.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/our-stories\/story\/making-connections-in-india\/\">For more, please click here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carleton Centre Maximizing Research By Dan Rubinstein Photos by Chris Roussakis More than 1.25 billion people live in India \u2014 one-sixth of the world\u2019s population. It is a country in the midst of enormous social, economic and technological change. 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