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First wastewater treatment system in
Africa commissioned in Tema
Tema, July 21, Ghanadot/GNA - The first Living Machine
Wastewater treatment system in Africa that will enable
effluent discharged into wetlands by households to be
treated and reused has been inaugurated in Tema.
The facility, costing 120,000 dollars, is located at Tema
Community Six, close to the Sakumono Lagoon.
Senior Advisor of Worrell Water Technologies, Dr Mark
Scaefer, said water treated by the Living Machine system was
ideal for irrigation, landscaping and certain industrial
processes and that effluent from the Living Machine could be
treated further with other purification technologies to make
it safe for drinking.
Dr Scaefer said his outfit donated the machine to Tema to
demonstrate the value of the technology in Africa as water
reuse had become important throughout the world due to the
decline of freshwater and that the system has been in
existence in the US for the past 10 years.
Inaugurating the system the Tema Municipal Chief Executive,
Mr David Quaye Annang, said the Tema Municipal Assembly
participated in the construction of the system and that the
assembly would maintain it.
GNA
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