{"podcast":{"title":"Liquid Assets","slug":"liquid-assets-6572676","podcast_index_feed_id":6572676,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/dc2b3d10/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://liquidassets.cc","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/36838212/36838212-1686013601184-72c9258d41da3.jpg","author":"Ravi Kurani","episode_count":61,"summary":"From policy to profit, Liquid Assets uncovers the business and technological implications of water in a changing world.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-20T06:18:29.292133+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/liquid-assets-6572676"},"episode":{"title":"From Uganda to Northeastern: How a Student Engineer Is Building Clean Water Access for 4,000 People","slug":"from-uganda-to-northeastern-how-a-student-engineer-is-building-clean-water-access-for-4-000-people","published_at":"2026-04-06T00:06:06+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/liquid-assets-6572676/from-uganda-to-northeastern-how-a-student-engineer-is-building-clean-water-access-for-4-000-people","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/liquid-assets-6572676","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ravi-kurani/episodes/From-Uganda-to-Northeastern-How-a-Student-Engineer-Is-Building-Clean-Water-Access-for-4-000-People-e3hfp2g","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/dc2b3d10/podcast/play/118006288/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-3-5%2F421472598-44100-2-bbc14e1dfacf6.mp3","summary":"What does it actually take to do charity work that lasts? Ravi Kurani sits down with Dhwani Bhatt, a fourth-year chemical engineering student at Northeastern University and President of Engineers Without Borders, who grew up in Uganda and returned as a student engineer to build a solar-powered water distribution system for the village of Nakyenyi. In this episode:→ Why EWB surveys 50+ households before touching a shovel→ The 3-phase build: hand pump → solar pump → gravity-fed distribution→ The borehole siltation crisis that forced the team back to the drawing board→ The 5% community contribution model that creates real ownership→ Why broken, abandoned NGO boreholes line the same village roads→ Imposter syndrome as a second-year student presenting designs to a community in need→ Book pick: "Not the End of the World" by Hannah RitchieThis episode is sponsored by HASA, the leader in water treatment solutions. Learn more at hasa.comConnect with Dhwani Bhatt on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/dhwanikalbhattEngineers Without Borders USA: ewb-usa.org Follow Ravi Kurani:→ LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/kuraniravi→ Website: liquidassets.cc","meta_description":"What does it actually take to do charity work that lasts? Ravi Kurani sits down with Dhwani Bhatt, a fourth-year chemical engineering student at Northeast…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1895,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/liquid-assets-6572676/episodes/from-uganda-to-northeastern-how-a-student-engineer-is-building-clean-water-access-for-4-000-people/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/liquid-assets-6572676/from-uganda-to-northeastern-how-a-student-engineer-is-building-clean-water-access-for-4-000-people.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}