@SuzieReichman I am an #environmentalengineer who studies & teaches #drinkingwater and #wastewater design; links between water quality, infrastructure, & public health; & methods of effective community partnerships centered on achieving equity. I look at how microbial functions in underinvested water systems support growth of #pathogens; & nutrient recovery via #peecycling to create more sustainable circular nutrient economy and slow release fertilizer forms.

I created a class called Water and Sanitation: Design and Practice with inspiration from Ethiopian faculty colleagues because so much of what is needed in water treatment for majority of the world is not in our conventional textbooks, across Global South and North. Almost to the end of the term. For tomorrow's topic, we start Ecosanitation and will focus on #peecycling and circular economy - for those new to this: it is about recovering N and P elements from wastes in concentrated forms by separating at the point of excretion, and using technology to process to safe NPK fertilizers. Last topic after this will be science communication & environmental justice, a topic in great demand by students. Happy to connect with anyone else creating similar content in their courses.

Even the New-York Times is talking about #urine!

Meet the peecyclers!
A shortage of fertilizers, worsened by the war in Ukraine, has growers desperate. It just so happens that human urine has #nutrients that crop need.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/17/climate/peecycling-farming-urine-fertilizer.html

#fertilizer #ClimateChange #peecycling #agriculture

"We see very strong results from the urine." https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/17/climate/peecycling-farming-urine-fertilizer.html

#fertilizer #ClimateChange #peecycling