less firewood, hence decreasing women’s exposure to violence while collecting firewood and their need to trade food rations for fuel. The stoves were developed with input from the women who would use them, enabling the designers to ensure that they would not tip over and that they would cook at an appropriate heat. The Darfur Stoves Project is the first initiative of the nonprofit organization, Potential Energy. Gadgil is a co-Founder and served as Board Chair of Potential Energy till 2015. Potential Energy's mission is to adapt and scale technologies that improve lives in developing countries. The Darfur Stoves Project collaborates with international organizations such as Oxfam America and the Sudanese organization, Sustainable Action Group (SAG). As of 2018, Potential Energy had distributed over 40,000 stoves to women in Darfur, Sudan. A single stove can last more than five years, saving 15-30% of a family's fuel costs, and reducing greenhouse gas emissions by two metric tons per year. ECAR {{external media | width = 210px | align = right | headerimage= | video1 = “ElectroChemical Arsenic Remediation (ECAR)”, January 9, 2017. |video2= Electrochemical Arsenic Remediation by Gadgil Lab for Energy and Water Research, April 9, 2014}} ECAR (ElectroChemical Arsenic Removal) is a simple technology for removing arsenic from drinking water with a low-voltage electric current and iron electrodes. ECAR purifies water above WHO standards at a cost of about 0.08 cents per liter, and was tested in the field in West Bengal in 2012. In 2013, it was licensed by an Indian water company for further development. Documentaries Ashok Gadgil is featured in Irena Salina's feature documentary Flow: For Love of Water (2008) and Michael Apted's award-winning 1999 documentary Me and Isaac Newton. Awards (Selected List) 2022, Director's Award from Berkeley Lab for Social Impact. For "design of the “DreamWarmer,” an innovative, non-electric infant warmer that uniquely addresses the challenges of resource-limited settings and has been proven to reduce ’all-cause’ infant mortality by a factor of three. " 2022, Inaugural Laureate of the Zuckerberg Water Prize for "outstanding leadership, vision, innovation, and lasting global impact in the field of Water." 2020, Honorable Mention, Patents for Humanity, United States Patent and Trademark Office, with Vi Rapp, for inventing an infant-warming device that uses a phase-change material to indicate temperature. 2017, Curry Stone Design Prize. Inducted in the "Social Design Honoree Circle" of honorees of the Curry Stone Foundation, for design under