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South Africa

Jane Catherine Ngila is the head of the Chemical Sciences Department at the University of Johannesburg, her work focuses on applying nanotechnology for water purification. She is Acting Executive Director of the African Academy of Sciences and member of the Academy of Science of South Africa.

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I hope we can achieve gender equality where women and girls are empowered to ensure inclusive and quality education for all.

I believe that African women have the capability to excel in the sciences and make Africa advance a lot in socio economic development.

I want us [Africans] to have access to safe drinking water, just as is the case in developed countries such as USA and in Europe.

We need these technologies, not just for industrial use, but also for domestic use, for everyday use. So that individual households can mount them in their homes.

My dream is to produce a commercially viable water nanofilter that removes contaminants in one filtration cycle, enabling rural African families to install affordable water filters in their homes. It is to have a continent where everyone can access safe and clean drinking water.

We drew water from a river about two miles [about 3km] away. The river where kids went to swim and women laundered their dirty clothes, was the same river we drew water from to fill our calabashes and plastic jerrycans.

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