Francis de los Reyes: Sanitation is a basic human right
Francis de los Reyes: Urządzenia sanitarne to podstawowe prawo człowieka
Francis de los Reyes works with cutting-edge microbiological techniques in environmental biotech. But his passion, both professionally and personally, is helping to improve the plight of the world’s 2.5 billion people living without adequate sanitation. Reyes is a TED Fellow. Full bio
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takie jak rzeki.
technik molekularnych,
w reaktorach biologicznych
obsesję na temat toalet,
do oczyszczania odbytniczego.
do odpowiedniej kanalizacji.
1.5 million child deaths
warunków sanitarnych.
choć można było tego uniknąć.
province in South Africa,
prowincji w Afryce Południowej,
wyposażenia ochronnego,
spłukiwanych toalet w zachodnim stylu
przemyśleć system sanitarny
i ponownego użycia.
ale ponownie wykorzystać.
nie powinno mieć znaczenia.
z uwzględnieniem kontekstu.
you're separating the urine,
w wysoce wartościowe produkty.
systemach sanitarnych,
czy oczyszczalnie hydrobotaniczne.
i oczyszczalni ścieków.
ale to nie wystarczy.
w Północnej Karolinie
come up with a simple solution,
prostego rozwiązania,
w Połuniowej Afryce, działało.
do odpowiednich sanitariatów
o niski statusie społecznym
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Francis de los Reyes - Environmental engineer, sanitation activistFrancis de los Reyes works with cutting-edge microbiological techniques in environmental biotech. But his passion, both professionally and personally, is helping to improve the plight of the world’s 2.5 billion people living without adequate sanitation. Reyes is a TED Fellow.
Why you should listen
Dr. Francis L. de los Reyes III is a Professor of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, Associate Faculty of Microbiology, and Training Faculty of Biotechnology at North Carolina State University. His research focuses on biological processes and combines modeling, bioreactor experiments, and molecular microbial ecology tools in addressing fundamental and practical issues in environmental biotechnology and environmental engineering. An important area of his research and teaching is water and sanitation in developing countries.
Current and past research projects (funding of ~ $4.5 M in last 10 years) include: quantitative microbial risk assessment of graywater reuse (WRRI), molecular analysis and modeling of the competition between filaments and floc-formers in activated sludge (NSF), analysis of the ecophysiology of nitrifiers and denitrifiers in microbial floc (NSF), optimization of a swine waste treatment system for nitrogen removal (US Department of Agriculture), analysis of the fate of bioagents in landfills (EPA), microbial characterization of landfills (Waste Management, Inc.), molecular techniques for groundwater remedation sites (US DOE/DOD), investigation of foam control methods (Hazen and Sawyer), development of probes for environmentally versatile Bacillus strains (Novozymes Biochemicals, Inc.), improvement of sludge dewatering (NC WRRI), microbial ecology of grease interceptors (CSPA) and the system-wide optimization of wastewater treatment plants using genetic algorithms.
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