ASMITAS — Arsenic Mitigation at Source — takes the Sediment Colour Tool, a visual colour attribute of sediments as perceived by local drillers, and turns it into a shared digital platform for installing community boreholes at safe depth.
The session brought together policy makers, practitioners and researchers around three threads: the present situation of safe drinking water access and the role of the private sector in realising SDG 6; the indigenous knowledge that led to the Sediment Colour Tool and its current practice; and the development of ASMITAS as a digital water platform with global applicability.
Speakers included Dara Johnston (Chief, WASH section, UNICEF Bangladesh), Prof. Prosun Bhattacharya (KTH-International Groundwater Arsenic Research Group) and Sanjeev Sharma (CEO and Co-founder, ExcelDots AB).