1. Wastewater As a Resource
African Water Week
May 27, 2014 Dakar, Senegal
Dr. Seneshaw Tsegaye
Assistant Professor
Patel College of Global Sustainability
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA
2. Urban Policy & Governance
Social Resiliency and Health
Communicating Science in
Sustainable Communities
Urban Planning and Design
Energy Systems
Urban Water
Urban Transport
Patel College of Global Sustainability -
Academic Areas
3. In many countries of sub-Saharan Africa
sanitation coverage is below 50 percent
Public health
Wastewater
as a burden
Wastewater
as a resource
?
4. Sanitation can’t be looked separately:
Integration is a key
Source: CSIRO
Surface water
Demand
management
Leakage
management
Stormwater/
Rainwater
Used water
recycling
Greywater
reuse
Cascading
water use
Desalination
Groundwater
Energy &
nutrient
7. Billions
Less Developed Regions
More Developed Regions
Full-scale struvite production facility
West Boise Canada (Pharmer Engineering)
Struvite as commercial fertilizer
www.pharmereng.com 2013 (Ostara)
Great ideas to recover
nutrient from water cycle
8. Great ideas to recover
nutrient from water cycle, Durban
Fecal sludge into safe fertilizer: LaDePa machine
9. Entrepreneurs see the potential
India, Malawi…..
Collection, transport, treatment and reuse-system (GTZ,2009)
11. Business oriented solution,
Naivasha, Kenya
Business oriented solution: Lavatory and wastewater
treatment plant with installed biogas generation facility
Public Toilet & Shower Cafe (Biogas for cooking)
12. NSWC, Kampala (Uganda): NAKIVUBO WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT CONSTRUCTION
AfDB Loan - treatment:
• 45,000 m3/day waste water
• 15,200 kg/day BOD
Energy production:
Biogas holding tank: 2,900 m3
Combined biogas and heat power
station: 2 x 280 kWh
Source: NSWC / AfDB 2010
Thermal energy from groundwater
MITIGATION
Harvesting to provide greater security
13. New Business Model for Water
Utilities- Hamburg Water Cycle
Business opportunities:
• Potential to recover and sell energy
• Potential to recover and sell nutrients
• Position of utility on the market as
operator of decentralized treatment
systems on district and household
scale
• Exporting technology and expertise to
quick growing Asian cities
• International consultancy
Decentralized system with source separation/ Vacuum sanitation
CHP
14. Heat exchanger in sewers
MITIGATION
Harvesting heat from sewers
Dalian-Xinghai (China) : Environment-friendly heating and cooling
17. Fresh Water Supply
Waste Water
Small Water
Consuming
Industry
Fresh Water Source
Waste Water from
Durban City
Reuse of Water
[Reduction in Wastewater
discharge @10%]
[7% (47.50 Ml/d) of City’s
Current Demand ]
[Ehekwini Water Services:
Build on PPP Concept]
Entrepreneurs see the
harvesting potential, Durban
18. Harvesting for agriculture
• 400M m3 treated wastewater used for agriculture in Beijing in
2010 (reduce peri-urban poverty and improve food security)
19. We need to move away from
traditional thinking
Driver for water management
should be beneficiation –maximize
value added
We need to harness the opportunities
and make it work for all