Francis de los Reyes: Sanitation is a basic human right
פרנסיס דה לוס רייס: סניטציה היא זכות בסיסית
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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בכורים ביולוגיים,
יודעים למה אני מתכוון.
המיידית שלכם.
1.5 million child deaths
province in South Africa,
קוואזולו-נטל בדרום אפריקה,
איך אנחנו יכולים לפתור את זה
אם אתם שוטפים או מנגבים,
את עצמנו לאפשרויות כמו,
you're separating the urine,
זה שאתם מפרידים את השתן,
הישנות של שרותים נשטפים
אבל זה לא יהיה מספיק.
וארגון הבריאות העולמי עשה את המחקר הזה,
שלושה עד 34 דולרים חזרה.
come up with a simple solution,
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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