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    What do we require from water biotechnologies in Africa?

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    Weissenbacher, N.
    Nikiema, Josiane
    Garfi, M.
    Figoli, A.
    Date
    2013
    Language
    en
    Type
    Journal Article
    Accessibility
    Open Access
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    Weissenbacher, N.; Nikiema, Josiane; Garfi, M.; Figoli, A. 2013. What do we require from water biotechnologies in Africa? Sustainable Sanitation Practice, 14(January):35-40. (Selected contributions from the 1st WATERBIOTECH conference, Cairo, Egypt, 9-11 October 2012).
    Permanent link to cite or share this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10568/40211
    External link to download this item: http://www.ecosan.at/ssp/selected-contributions-from-the-1st-waterbiotech-conference-9-11-oct-2012-cairo-egypt/SSP-14_Jan2013.pdf
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    When discussing water and sanitation issues, technology is often seen as the key element by many stakeholders. Within a multinational project, the opportunity was taken to analyse the experiences with the existing water infrastructure to look behind this assumption and - if not working satisfactory - to identify the key requirements that obviously have not been met. Following this, it should be possible to prepare a set of requirements to learn from this. A three stage questionnaire for different stakeholder level (authorities, operators and end users) has been launched in Algeria, Burkina Faso, Egypt, Ghana, Morocco, Senegal and Tunisia. Some main obstacles towards sustainable biological wastewater treatment could then be identified. The reader expecting specific technical suggestions might be disappointed but the key messages that are relevant for all the different conditions of the four North African and the three Sub Saharan countries are presented. The given requirements tackle issues that are unfortunately not only of technical nature and are (almost) all linked to each other.
    Other CGIAR Affiliations
    Water, Land and Ecosystems
    AGROVOC Keywords
    wastewater treatment; water reuse; biotechnology; urine; sanitation; energy demand
    Countries
    Algeria; Burkina Faso; Egypt; Ghana; Morocco; Senegal
    Regions
    Africa
    Organizations Affiliated to the Authors
    International Water Management Institute
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    • Recovering and Reusing Resources in Urbanized Ecosystems [136]
    • WLE Journal Articles [921]

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