human waste News
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ReThink: Cities Without Sewers
“Where conventional sanitation is out of reach, old methods paired with new science can get human waste safely back in the ground, with environmental benefits and more. A project in Haiti is leading the way for cities without sewers.” As part of a reporting project dedicated to uncovering solutions for nutrient recovery from urban waste, environmental journalist Chelsea Wald spent ...
By SOIL Haiti
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Thames Water launches `Bin it - don`t block` campaign
Thames Water has urged people not to throw food waste or cooking fat down toilets as part of a campaign called Bin it – don’t block it to stop “sewer abuse”. Thames Water chief operating officer Steve Shine said: “This year alone we have had to deal with 55,000 blockages in London and the Thames Valley, resulting in flooding to 7,000 homes and gardens. “The majority of blockages are caused by ...
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Ghanaian scientist wins support for plan to turn human waste into fertiliser
A female Ghanaian scientist is one of four researchers from developing countries who received US$100,000 each to pursue their dream ideas for solving global health problems. Olufunke Cofie, a soil scientist at the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research's Challenge Program on Water and Food will develop fertiliser pellets from treated human waste to boost agricultural ...
By SciDev.Net
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Ghana scientist wins support for plan to turn human waste into fertiliser
A Nigerian scientist based in Ghana is one of four researchers from developing countries who received US$100,000 each to pursue their dream ideas for solving global health problems. Olufunke Cofie, a soil scientist at the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research's Challenge Program on Water and Food will develop fertiliser pellets from treated human waste to boost agricultural ...
By SciDev.Net
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Gates challenges researchers to reinvent the toilet
It is time to reinvent the toilet for the developing world where other attempts to improve sanitation have failed, according to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Although billions of dollars have been poured into sanitation infrastructure in the developing world, rapid population growth means that there are now more people without access to improved sanitation in Sub-Saharan Africa than ...
By SciDev.Net
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Daniel Mazur to receive Hillary Medal
Mountain climber and humanitarian Dr. Daniel Mazur will receive the Sir Edmund Hillary Mountain Legacy Medal “for remarkable service in the conservation of culture and nature in mountainous regions.” The award will be presented at the International Mountain Museum in Pokhara, Nepal, on December 11 (International Mountain Day) during the Nepal Mountaineering Association’s fifth ...
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2.6bn people suffer absymal sanitation, says UN Secretary General on World Water Day
World Water Day 2008 was celebrated by the UN on Thursday and saturday last week, highlighting issues on sanitation in accordance with the International Year of Sanitation 2008. People around the world were encouraged to celebrate the day to draw attention to the world’s sanitation challenge. Improved disposal of human waste protects the quality of drinking water sources, says the United ...
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SOIL’s EkoLakay Service Mapped in New Water Atlas
Hot off the press is Guerilla Cartography’s Water Atlas, their latest project featuring volunteer submissions of maps on all things water, including one titled “Reducing Water Pollution with a Poop Solution” – a map on SOIL’s EkoLakay household sanitation service! Monika Roy, SOIL’s former Project Coordinator, spearheaded this project back in 2015 when ...
By SOIL Haiti
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Nature Climate Change: Groundbreaking Research on GHG Emissions Offset of SOIL’s Sanitation Solution
Around the globe, 4.5 billion people lack access to safely managed sanitation with 1 billion of those living in densely populated urban settlements. Many urban residents rely on pit latrines where human waste is not safely managed and carries the potential to contaminate water sources and critically endanger public health. To address the urgent need for safely managed sanitation in the ...
By SOIL Haiti
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How to Convert Waste into Renewable Energy through Briquetting Plant?
Day by day huge amounts of waste are produced by various human activities. This waste produces environmental pollution. So we have to manage the waste so that we can reduce environmental pollution. Biomass Briquette Machines help us to manage this waste. Biomass Briquette Machines convert agriculture and forestry waste into solid fuel briquettes or white coal. Briquettes are eco-friendly fuel and ...
By JK BioEnergy
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Cranfield to develop innovative waterless toilet that turns waste into energy
Cranfield University is to develop a waterless, hygienic toilet with the potential to transform the lives of the 2.5 billion people worldwide without access to basic sanitation, thanks to $800,000 funding from the ‘Reinvent the Toilet Challenge’ of the Bill &Melinda Gates Foundation Water, Sanitation and Hygiene initiative. Cranfield is one of a number of organisations and ...
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ENI Saipem contracts BONO ARTES for Algeria
A large part of civil and industrial installations, especially in developing countries, is located in remote and secluded areas where there is no possibility for connection to a public sewer. In these situations the problem of how to adequately treat civil wastewater has to be tackled. BONO ARTES has developed an activated sludge process called BIOCLAR; an advanced technology compared to ...
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American Standard Partners with WaterAid to Provide Global Sanitation Solutions
A new partnership between American Standard Brands and WaterAid seeks to save lives and improve access to safe sanitation in Bangladesh. Through their joint effort, hundreds of thousands of people in this developing country will receive a cost effective, sanitary toilet pan to help prevent the spread of disease and improve their standard of living. "Our partnership with WaterAid plays a ...
By WaterAid
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U.S. EPA, city of San José announce $943,000 pilot program to reduce trash to San Francisco bay
San José Mayor Chuck Reed and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Regional Administrator Jared Blumenfeld today launched the Clean Creeks, Healthy Communities pilot program at a press conference in San José, California, to highlight a significant pollution problem impacting San Francisco Bay. The Clean Creeks, Healthy Communities pilot program will be aimed at reducing pollution ...
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Rio official says there is no plan B for Olympic sailing
Rio de Janeiro Olympic organizers said Tuesday they have "no plan B" for the 2016 games' sailing competitions, despite a recent admission by the state's top environment official that it will be impossible to meet pledges to clean up the raw sewage- and trash-filled waters where the events are to be staged. Mario Andrade, spokesman of the Rio 2016 organizing committee insisted the sailing ...
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Stanford and UC Davis student teams receive sustainable design funding from EPA
Today the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency awarded nearly $30,000 in grants to two student teams at Stanford University and University of California Davis to design a cleaner waterless toilet and cheaper biomethane production. The students are among 42 teams across the country who competed for grants by submitting research proposals to develop sustainable, alternative methods that address ...
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Softener contribution to salinity examined
The city of Woodland in California is naming water softeners as one source of salinity in its wastewater stream, has launched a survey to identify other sources of salinity making their way into the community’s wastewater, according to a recent post on the city of Woodland’s Web site.In discussing the salinity minimization project, the city noted its hard water, adding, “Unfortunately, the ...
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Glug and Toss Water Bottles Clog Landfills
WASHINGTON, DC - Bottled water is not only costly at the cash register, it is environmentally costly, according to a new report from the Worldwatch Institute. Millions of tons of oil-derived plastics, mostly polyethylene terephthalate, PET, are used to make the water bottles, most of which are not recycled. Each year, about two million tons of PET bottles end up in landfills in the United ...
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FAO and EU to help Belarus reduce risks from dangerous pesticides
FAO in cooperation with the European Union will help Belarus to dispose of obsolete pesticides and reduce risks from pesticides used in agriculture in the future, under a new agreement signed today. Over the next two and a half years, FAO will provide technical assistance to Belarus in managing its stocks of obsolete pesticides, building capacity to minimize the threats from hazardous waste to ...
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New ocean threats underline need for urgent action to protect the high seas
Gland, Switzerland, October 24, 2007 (IUCN) – New threats to the marine environment are arising from unregulated activities in areas beyond national jurisdiction such as ocean iron fertilization, seismic testing and bioprospecting, experts have warned. International marine policy experts convening in New York warned that, in conjunction with the predicted effects of climate change, these ...
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