Chandigarh girl Srishti Asthana
Srishti will showcase her project at the Google headquarters
in the US, which could be potential green method for treating waste water laced
with detergents.
The idea for the project ticked her during a school field
trip to a textile industry in Ludhiana when she noticed the terrible state of
industry’s waste disposal causing water pollution.
Speaking to an English daily, Srishti said, “As a part of a
field trip, I went to Ludhiana last year and was taken aback to see how the
dyes from the textile industries got drained out in the water bodies, thus
polluting it. On querying from an owner on how they treated the water before
draining out, he counter questioned me on whether do we treat the detergent
water before draining that out. The question triggered an idea in me of doing
the same.”
“I created a method where the solar light and nano particles
of zinc oxide are used to treat detergent water. It is purely a green technique
and environment-friendly,” she added.
Srishti, who wishes to persuade a career in “pure sciences”,
will be flown to Google’s Mountain View headquarters in the US on September 23
to present her project for the final round, which will be judged by an
international panel of esteemed scientists. The grand prize will get a ten-day
trip to the Galapagos Islands, $50,000 in scholarships, and more.
The Google Science Fair is an online competition. It was
first started in 2011 and is open to students in the age groups of 13-18 to
widen science projects and share their findings.
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