<p>In the second episode of this four-part season, we travel to Bend, Oregon to visit the Water and Energy Technologies Laboratory and meet the team that is inventing a new technology to desalinate water. Bahman Abbassi, associate professor of mechanical engineering, talks about building the lab from the ground up, and graduate student Mohammed Elhashimi demonstrates their system to desalinate water. </p>  <p class="Paragraph SCXW250292553 BCX0">Bonus content: </p>   <ul> <li class="Paragraph SCXW250292553 BCX0">Quest for Clean Water (<a class="Hyperlink SCXW250292553 BCX0" href= "https://engineering.oregonstate.edu/all-stories/quest-clean-water" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">story</a>, <a class= "Hyperlink SCXW250292553 BCX0" href="https://youtu.be/aP6_vaBYKVQ" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">video</a>) </li> <li class="Paragraph SCXW250292553 BCX0"><a class= "Hyperlink SCXW250292553 BCX0" href= "https://osucascades.edu/wet-lab" target="_blank" rel= "noreferrer noopener">Water and Energy Technologies Laboratory</a> </li> </ul>

And so, it flows, S12E3

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