A FILIPINO-initiated study that seeks to help in achieving food security and creating a positive impact on the environment won the coveted United Kingdom-initiated Newton Prize last week in Makati City.
A FILIPINO-initiated study that seeks to help in achieving food security and creating a positive impact on the environment won the coveted United Kingdom-initiated Newton Prize last week in Makati City.
Dubbed Water-Energy-Nutrient Nexus in the Cities of the Future, the winning research on how to convert wastewater into a nutrient-rich fertilizer was led by Prof. Michael Angelo Promentilla from De La Salle University and Dr. Devendra Saroj from University of Surrey.
It’s actually about phosphorus recovery from these wastewaters, such as septage and sewage. So we’re trying to recover this phosphorus because if it’s not recovered properly it will just be dumped into the water bodies and it will cause eutrophication, algal blooms, and so on, Promentilla told the BusinessMirror in an interview after he received the award.
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