Saving Water using Smart Tile

Smart Tile Self-Assembly and Replication

We propose the concept of self-assembly of smart tiles, i.e., tiles which possess a local computational device in addition to having edge glues that can be activated or deactivated by signals. We demonstrate the potential of self-assembly with smart tiles to efficiently perform robotic tasks such as the replication of convex shapes. The smart tile assembly system we construct does not make any ...

Sensing sugar and saving water

Water is the major factor limiting the growth and development of many land plants, and stomata, composed of two guard cells, are the chief gates controlling plants’ water loss. Many environmental and physiological stimuli control stomatal opening, but they all do so through the regulation of guard-cell osmolarity. Increased guard-cell osmolarity leads to the opening of the stomata and decreased...

Saving Lives through Global Safe Water

nsafe water is a global public health threat, placing persons at risk for a host of diarrheal and other diseases as well as chemical intoxication. Unsanitary water has particularly devastating effects on young children in the developing world. Each year, >2 million persons, mostly children <5 years of age, die of diarrheal disease (1,2). For children in this age group, diarrheal disease account...

Water saving in rice-wheat systems

Water shortage is a major constraint to sustaining and increasing the productivity of rice-wheat systems. Saving water can be elusive in that reducing seepage, percolation and runoff losses from fields does not necessarily save water if it can be recaptured at some other temporal or spatial scale, for example by groundwater pumping. Many technologies appear to save substantial amounts of water ...

Saving Water: From Field to Fork