David Sedlak is the Plato Malozemoff Professor in the Civil & Environmental Engineering department and the director of the Berkeley Water Center at the University of California at Berkeley. His research focuses on the fate of chemical contaminants in engineered and natural systems. He serves as the, “Lead Cartographer” for the National Alliance for Water Innovation (NAWI), a multi-year research effort of the US Department of Energy, where he directs efforts to create research roadmaps for advancing desalination in the municipal, industrial and agricultural sectors in the United States. He is also the author of “Water for All: Global Solutions for a Changing Climate.”

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