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I began working on the arsenic treatment issue since the end of the Fall 2012 semester and have been working on it since. Over the past two semesters the teams which I have worked with were looking at how we could integrate an arsenic removal process into AguaClara technologies. Last semester was where a lot of headway was made in research and in creating protocols for the laboratory testing that will be done this semester. We hope that by the end of this semester the Arsenic team will have a dedicated lab space set up for continued arsenic removal research, have our detection methods refined, and to narrow down our treatment options through experimentation.
So far this semester the team and I have gathered our required materials to begin testing. We still have a few more chemicals to acquire, but then we can start looking at arsenic removal methods. We have also refined our testing procedure, but we wont know about the pitfalls we will encounter until we actually begin testing.