{"683712":{"#nid":"683712","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Brothers United in Mission to Improve Water","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EEnvironmental Engineering graduate students Farhan Khan and Farshid Khan are passionate about providing access to clean water.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThey have a lot in common\u2014starting with the fact that they are brothers. Farhan Khan came to Georgia Tech from Bangladesh to begin his Ph.D. studies in 2021. Farshid Khan followed in 2024, beginning his first semester assisting a doctoral student in the very same lab as his older brother.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cGeorgia Tech undoubtedly has one of the best programs in this field,\u201d Farshid Khan said. \u201cAlso because of the fact that my brother is here, when I got the admission offer, it was the perfect place to come.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETheir journey to Georgia Tech is deeply rooted in their experience growing up in Bangladesh.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOne of the major problems in Bangladesh is textile effluent pollution,\u201d Farshid Khan said. \u201cIt is one of the largest textile exporters in the world. But the problem with the textile industry is they do not treat the water well. All of their effluents come into our rivers and they are highly polluted.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI always wanted to work on that, and it is still my plan after going back to Bangladesh to work on that.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERead more about their story on the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ce.gatech.edu\/news\/2025\/07\/brothers-united-mission-improve-water\u0022\u003ESchool of Civil and Environmental Engineering website.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EEnvironmental Engineering graduate students Farhan Khan and Farshid Khan are passionate about providing access to clean water. They have a lot in common\u2014starting with the fact that they are brothers. Farhan Khan came to Georgia Tech from Bangladesh to begin his Ph.D. studies in 2021. Farshid Khan followed in 2024, beginning his first semester assisting a doctoral student in the very same lab as his older brother.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Environmental Engineering graduate students Farhan Khan and Farshid Khan are passionate about providing access to clean water.  They have a lot in common\u2014starting with the fact that they are brothers. Farhan Khan came to Georgia Tech from Bangladesh to be"}],"uid":"35146","created_gmt":"2025-08-11 16:46:03","changed_gmt":"2025-08-11 16:51:43","author":"mweinman3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2025-08-11T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2025-08-11T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"677644":{"id":"677644","type":"image","title":"_MG_9577.jpg","body":null,"created":"1754930820","gmt_created":"2025-08-11 16:47:00","changed":"1754930820","gmt_changed":"2025-08-11 16:47:00","alt":"Farhan and Farshid Khan in the lab ","file":{"fid":"261562","name":"_MG_9577.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/08\/11\/_MG_9577.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/08\/11\/_MG_9577.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":14004659,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2025\/08\/11\/_MG_9577.jpg?itok=k2jn9oZR"}}},"media_ids":["677644"],"groups":[{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"}],"categories":[{"id":"154","name":"Environment"}],"keywords":[{"id":"187915","name":"go-researchnews"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMelissa Fralick\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["melissa.fralick@ce.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}