Videos
2024 • Aguatuya Foundation Nutrient recovery and reuse
This video features Lourdes Valenzuela, Program Coordinator at the Aguatuya Foundation in Bolivia, presenting the implementation of a urine treatment plant. It emphasizes the importance of nutrient recovery and reuse, particularly phosphorus, a critical resource for agriculture with depleting global reserves. The video details ecological sanitation technologies used in the El Alto plateau, showcasing how sustainable sanitation solutions enable nutrient recovery from human waste. The discussion covers technologies, such as fermentation and struvite precipitation, to produce liquid and solid fertilizers. The content is particularly relevant for policymakers, researchers, and practitioners in sanitation and waste management. Key insights include the environmental and economic benefits of closing nutrient loops and the paradigm shift necessary for sustainable living.
Recovered Materials & Products
Nutrients
Fertilizer
Water
Struvite
Waste Streams
Faecal sludge
Urine
Confirmed countries
Bolivia
