Driving eco-innovation in Africa. Capacity building for a safe circular water economy.
Last week we saw the conclusion of the PARTICIPATE with RECIRCULATE series, with our International Impact Webinar: Enterprise. The webinar was held 24th March 2022 and explored the opportunities for entrepreneurs and professionals from RECIRCULATE research. The webinar also served as a celebration of the RECIRCULATE Project – with partners, former residents and members of […]
Informal toilets and a safe circular water economy International Symposium, Lancaster University, 28-29 March 2022 A venue for the exchange of ideas and knowledge between researchers, practitioners and policy makers concerned with ‘sanitation for water and health’ – for the benefit of informal urban dwellers. Background For most informal dwellers, water is unaffordable, […]
Closing the waste loop; a case of the cattle rumen digestate amended with poultry droppings as bio-fertilizer. The end products of anaerobic digestion (AD) are biogas and digestate. Digestate from our previous experiments has been shown to have the potential to help solve the problem of soil infertility in Sub-saharan Africa especially in the ultisols […]
The team at the University of Benin have been working on different aspects of the RECIRCULATE Water for Energy Production workpackage, one very important part of this work being the optimization of the anaerobic digestion process. Following on from earlier work within the project, the team have been aiming to establish the best ratio for […]
In January we covered the commissioning and handing over ceremony of a Integrated Biodigester (IBD) plant at Umar Bun Hatab Islamic Basic School at Madina Zongo, by CSIR, Lancaster University and other partners. Five students from Umar Bun Hatab Islamic basic school followed on with written articles to express their appreciation for the ACTUATE project […]
Grace Bridgewater from the Lancaster Environment Centre and Cathy Olphin from Lancaster University Management School summarise the key outcomes of their analysis of anaerobic digestion case studies from across Africa. As previous blogs in The FLOW have made clear, anaerobic digestion (AD) offers great potential as a solution to several problems common across the African […]
Science and gender equality are both vital for the achievement of the internationally agreed development goals, including the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Over the past decades, the global community has made a lot of effort in inspiring and engaging women and girls in science. Yet women and girls continue to be excluded from participating […]
Dr Joana Pais Zozimo, a RECIRCULATE Senior Research Associate, reflects on the ongoing impact of healthy writing retreats, in her double capacity of qualified facilitator and writer. I suspect that it won’t come as a surprise to many of you if I start by suggesting that many of us find writing a real challenge! That […]
RECIRCULATE’s Water for Sanitation and Health team have been identifying, mapping and performing observations of ‘poor sanitation hotspots’ to better understand the processes that create them. By ‘poor sanitation hotspots’ we mean areas of the community that have particularly unsanitary conditions, or that are prone to extra stresses that mean the cleanliness of the environment […]
A central concern of the RECIRCULATE Water for Sanitation and Health Work Package (WP2) is how best to reduce faecal contamination of drinking water. To determine whether water is contaminated, Research and Technical Officers from the Water Research Institute (CSIR-WRI), which is part of Ghana’s Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, conduct tests of the […]