Nanotechnology Applications for Clean Water, 2nd Edition

Chapter 39

How Can Nanotechnologies Fulfill the Needs of Developing Countries?

David J. Grimshaw¹, Lawrence D. Gudza² and Jack Stilgoe³,    ¹Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham Hill, UK,    ²Practical Action, Bourton-on-Dunsmore, Rugby, UK,    ³University College London, London, UK

In an effort to engage citizens in “upstream” dialogues, a number of “experiments in public engagement” with science took place during 2005–2006. This chapter discusses those engagements, with a particular focus on the findings of a “nanodialogue” held in Zimbabwe during July 2006 involving scientists and representatives of two communities that experience real problems with the supply of clean drinking water.

Concerns of society often focus on risk and this ...