A Low-priced Water Reuse Process that also Delivers Renewable Energy in Rural Areas

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A Low-priced Water Reuse Process that also Delivers Renewable Energy in Rural Areas

Anaerobic Digestion in rural areas is a great area of opportunities, specially at household scale. The aim is to provide them green energy for cooking or heating and at the same time to enjoy of the benefits from this process.

What do Yucatan (Mexico), Michoacan (Mexico), Karur (India), and Jan Kempdorp (South Africa) have in common? These are all places with successful stories of implementing Anaerobic Digestion (AD) for wastewater treatment. But what is AD? What are the benefits?  

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  1. This is very interesting. Is there a central organisation behind this? It sounds like a project that might interest WAFA (Water Air Food Awards) at www.wafaward.org. Please send me any website or other info  

    Best, Christel 

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    1. Hi Christel Halse at the moment we are doing research about which organisations are behind this. What we have found so far is that there are 2 types of organisations: The private industry and some consultants being hired by communities or governments to give them training. The governments at least in Latin America they are giving some economic support to build anaerobic digesters in local farm. However there is no plan or project for rural communities which lack of basic services. We need still to work on this to come out with a project that can be of the interest of any government or central organisation.  If you need any concrete information, just give me a touch and we can discuss about it. My colleague  Christian (The main author) and I are open to do collaborations if you want. 

      Cheers,

      Chris