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STEPHEN CARPENTER: What
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is how this press works.

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I want to show how to make
a proper water filter.

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And this is a
ceramic water filter

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that I'm going to create here.

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And that's essentially a
focus of the first talk.

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This is bisque-fired filters
made with clay and sawdust.

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Dry clay, dry
sawdust, about 50/50.

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And when the sawdust burns
out, it leaves pores.

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Now, the clay is
naturally porous,

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but the sawdust allows
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and so the water
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If you have water
that's contaminated

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with microbes and pathogens
that might create things

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like cholera, E.
coli, Giardia, you

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can put that water
into this filter.

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It will filter about one
to three liters an hour.

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And that water is rendered about
95% free of those contaminants.

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If we add a small amount of
colloidal silver to the filter

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by brushing it on--

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usually, it's a less than a
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of water.

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That silver acts as a
natural antimicrobial

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and will render inert
approximately the remaining 4

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and 1/2% to 5% of the bad
stuff that's in that water.

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So this is one of
those approaches that

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allows us to have potable
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to clean water.

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A few years ago, I was working
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students.

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I said, look, I
have this dilemma.

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Here's the situation.

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We have this big press
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to make these filters,
but it's really tough

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to take with me on the road.

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Can you make one that
fits in a suitcase?

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They said, yeah.

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Can you make one that makes
the same size filters?

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Yeah.

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Can you make one that
doesn't cost any money

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or costs as little as possible?

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They said, well, maybe.

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And they did it.

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This is the filter press.

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It was collapsed earlier.

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I assembled this.

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And they made this out
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but also, some of
the material I gave

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them, which was this bell, the
male and female molds here.

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So I'll demonstrate how
this works to make a filter.

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Usually, again, the filters
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but this is a smaller press.

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This is both the prototype
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and the only one in existence.

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Cool thing about this is
one person can operate it.

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Usually with those big
presses, it's easier

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if two people operate it.

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But one person can do very well.

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So this is a male mold.

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This is essentially
very lightweight steel.

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So we have this bell form.

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And what we're going to do is
put the clay in the middle,

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and we'll make the
filter this way.

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So this is the metal mold,
the bottom of the mold.

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I'm going to-- thank you--

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put this plastic down
as a release agent.

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Because the clay will
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It doesn't like to
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And I have this bat.

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It has a bevel in
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the same angle as the bell.

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Then, I'm going
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So I'm going to put the
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and then I'll put this top part.

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What's interesting is that the
original traditional approach

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to these larger presses
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and then they moved to
lighter weight metal molds.

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And so this is the
same exact mold

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that one would find
on a larger press.

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Now, this is the part that
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because you've got to make
sure both of these sides

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are latched down.

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Take this arm and
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And then, with just a simple--

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this is a fun part.

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I like to say you have
to get up to get down.

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You have to push this
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to have resistance
and push back down.

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At this point, I am going
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All right, we'll
tighten this back up.

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Certainly, this machine,
this press, portable press,

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wouldn't necessarily work
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facility where you want to crank
out lots of filters in a day

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or in a week.

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But certainly, to
establish a facility

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in a community that needs clean
water using this technology,

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we can use this press to
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and give ourselves a
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the clay but how the
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Lift this back up.

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And there's our filter.

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Just takes a little bit
of cleanup at this point.

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Again, I'm using my thumb just
to pull some of this extra off,

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but I could certainly use--

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and this is what you would
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would be to take a clay tool
and to clean this up, as well.

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And then, because this bat
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I simply lift, and
there's the filter.

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I can lay this--

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place this down on a shelf in
the studio or in the facility.

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Another worker
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smooth up some of
the edges, perhaps.

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Stamp it with a
date and a number

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so we can track the
way that it operates.

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We let it dry, then we fire it.

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We put it in the kiln.

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We fire it to about 866
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then is the sawdust
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then creates a more porous
vessel that allows the water

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to flow at a more
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would if it wasn't as porous.

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This is ready to
make another filter.

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I could put plastic
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We could continue to make
filters as long as we had clay.

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So with one person, that was,
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frame.

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With two people, you could
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But the reason I wanted
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is to show you, in
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takes to create a water filter.

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What if you designed houses,
what if you designed shelters,

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what if you designed access
to water as if you really

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cared about people getting it?

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Not that you cared about
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or that you were
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or that you were just
doing it to do it.

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What if you gave a damn
about the situation?

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What if you cared
in more direct ways?

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What would that look like?

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In ways that would be affordable
to people who need it,

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but also appropriate in terms
of appropriate technology.

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The idea that
materials and practices

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and processes that
allow for things

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like shelter and food and
water access to happen

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do not complicate a cultural
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It's appropriate
for the culture.

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It's appropriate
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Thinking about culture as the
way we do things around here.

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So does the technology
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we do things around here?

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Does it pose confusion?

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So this is the gentleman
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with coming up
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Dr. Fernando Mazariegos,
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And as a first response
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Mazariegos thought if we
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allowed for water
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that contaminated water to flow
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we might be able to produce
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to potable water, after
natural disasters.

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And so Mazariegos then was
contacted by Ron Rivera.

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Ron was working with Potters
For Peace at the time.

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This was in the late
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And Ron learned the
process and started

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setting up a water filter
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through Potters For Peace.

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Met Ron Rivera a number of
years ago at a conference.

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And several months after
I met him, he passed away.

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He was working in Nigeria to
help a community set up a water

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filter production
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wouldn't contract malaria and
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Ron came back from
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from a very rare and
difficult strain of malaria.

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So he gave his life so that
others could have clean water.

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And whenever I give
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I always think of that very
special moment meeting Ron.

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But the idea is that it's
possible for this technology

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to be passed along
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can use it to move
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and through communities
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This is a cross-section.

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This is a drawing that
Manny did of the filter

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inside the receptacle.

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You see the addition
of a spigot and a lid.

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And these are two
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You need a spigot
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and a lid to keep
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entering into the filter.

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Contamination is a
big issue, right?

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These filters, as
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were sitting on a
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you can put anything in.

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Your hands can touch them.

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External things
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And you can
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Even the water that is flowing
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So a lid is necessary.

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I don't know if you
can hear, but this one

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is dripping quite loudly now
that the water is flowing.

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We have some dirty water
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And we filled these filters up.

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I'm going to lift this
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You can't see the cross-section.

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This is the cross-section.

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Here's the spigot.

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I don't have the lid,
but I'll lift this up.

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You'll notice the
bell shape, and you

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should see the water
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You see that?

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And if you come up later,
after we give this little chat,

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you'll be able to see the
clean water that's in there.

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So this is a point-of-use
water filter.

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It's placed in the
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will be used in the home,
usually in a kitchen.

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And the idea is that you would
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in the evening, I'm sorry,
before you go to sleep.

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It will filter through the
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you have water for
cooking and drinking.

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You fill it up again
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and then you have another
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So, again, point-of-use
water filters.

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These filters, again, the
technology is the same.

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The idea is the same, but
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different in
different locations,

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various organizations
have set up facilities

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under different names, but
using the same technology,

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the same idea.

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Because the need for clean
water is a global need.

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The right to access to water
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So this little girl and the
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are drinking water
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I can go right to that water
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and get a drink of water, or my
water bottle is here somewhere.

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I can drink out of that.

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Many of you have water bottles.

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This is the same water that
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This water is the same water
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where people have thrown
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throwing away in that water.

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This little girl is in Honduras.

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This gentleman is getting
water for his family, his well.

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on the plane facing us.

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He reaches his hand in,
puts a few coins in there,

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and the water comes
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underneath.

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He fills up the containers
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and then drives those
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Then has to figure out how to
get the water into his house.

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Then has to figure
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the water is clean
and safe to drink.

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This gentleman is in South
Texas, outside of Laredo.

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Half a million people do not
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and housing that's up
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from El Paso to Brownsville
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that green swath that
you see in that map.

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That's South Texas.

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Half a million people.

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They don't have adequate
access to clean water, either.

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And so my colleague at
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is the director of
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and works with communities
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Social practice and
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linking those two, this notion
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responsibility.

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Social practice
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grows out of a number of
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where it has been theorized
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and Pablo Helguera
and others to think

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about the way in which
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intersect with social
issues and conventions

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from other disciplines
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or to enact change
through intentional modes.

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Public pedagogy, very much
like what we did this morning.

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We were out, essentially,
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or we were on the patio that
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mixing clay and
sawdust in preparation

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for making water filters.

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said, what are you doing?

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Right there, you have
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this interchange, by asking
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and this back and forth
and back and forth.

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There's some learning that
goes on in both directions.

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And talking to folks
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through a public forum
in a public space

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is one form that we might
consider public pedagogy.

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When I moved it to
Penn State, I decide

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to put a name to these
performances-- collaborative

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creative resistance.

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I mean, Larry and I were
talking about titles.

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And sometimes, the title's
enough to tease and pull folks

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in.

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But the idea of how
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work together to resist
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or to disrupt what others
might find acceptable.

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So with a small grant from
the Institute for the Arts

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and Humanities, I
did a performance

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in front of the
Palmer Museum of Art.

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So there's a proximity
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So maybe it's more
art-like because it's

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closer to the museum?

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I'm not necessarily saying that.

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But it was a
wonderful open space

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that allowed for the middle
of campus to stumble upon it.

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That was a Friday afternoon
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Set up the press.

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Started making filters.

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People stopped by.

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Students in art education and
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volunteered to sieve
sawdust and to mix the clay.

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Although I knew this
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I didn't count on it happening
to the degree that it did.

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In the background of this image,
and in the very foreground,

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you probably see people
who are a little younger

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than what you might expect
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These are children who came
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on campus and from the
local elementary schools.

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The daycare folks knew
I was going to do it,

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because I had talked to them.

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But the kids from the elementary
schools, their teachers

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and the kids thought they
were going inside the museum

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to see art.

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But when they got off the bus,
they saw this guy with a fedora

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wedging clay and using this
big guillotine-looking machine

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in the middle of campus.

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They'd rather stay outside
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We had wonderful conversations
about adequate access

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to clean water.

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Former student Sam
Bachmann, who's

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a ceramic artist, dual degree
studio art and art education.

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You can have class anywhere.

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You can engage
education anywhere.

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You can have learning anywhere.

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Education is a relationship.

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Teaching and learning
is a relationship

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that's negotiated
between multiple parties.

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And there's as much
learning going on

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from whoever thinks they
might be the teacher as there

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is from folks who
might initially

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think they're the learner.

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Everyone in that relationship
is learning and teaching

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simultaneously.

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[BIRDS CHIRPING]

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