Bangladeshi scientist Hussam Time's environment hero
Abul Hussam, Bangladeshi expatriate scientist, is one of Global Heroes of the Environment 2007, chosen by the Time magazine, for his invention, Sono filter, a low-cost technology to free water from arsenic.
The American news magazine recently chose him as one of the 'global heroes' in the category of scientists and innovators.
He will be given the award on October 25 in London, said a press release of the Human Development Research Centre, Dhaka.
After a decade of research, Hussam, Associate Professor of Chemistry at the George Mason University in Virginia, USA, and his younger brother Dr Abul Munir, jointly invented the simple but life-saving filter, capable of purifying poisoned water.
Their another brother Prof Abul Barakat of Dhaka University also contributed to the decade-long research to make its production less costly.
The filter could save countless lives among the estimated 137 million people around the world who have to depend on water, contaminated with high levels of the colourless, odourless and tasteless metals, which accumulates in the body to damage nerves, cause sores, cancer, and too often, death, a Time article says.
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