With a population of 27 million, about 23 million of Ghana’s people do not have access to improved sanitation, and 3 million do not have access to safe drinking water. Solutions to this challenge could greatly reduce related diseases and mortality.
Main Applications:
Waste Water Treatment, Portable Water, Water Use Efficiency, Waste Water Recycling, Desalination, Rain Water Harvesting, Efficient Irrigation
Isaac Monney is the Founder and Innovations Manager of Bluesparks Water Technologies Limited and a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Environmental Health and Sanitation Education, University of Education, Winneba. He holds a Bachelor Degree in Civil Engineering, a Masters Degree in Water Resources Engineering and Management and currently pursuing a Doctoral degree in Water Supply and Treatment Technologies at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology.
Bluesparks Water Technologies provides innovative water and wastewater recycling technologies and services for domestic and industrial purposes. We are responsible for the design, manufacture and installation of wastewater recycling technologies currently for industrial applications. Since 2015, the company has been dedicated to developing innovative technologies for recycling of wastewater from the carwash industry. We have committed extensive resources into prototyping and field-testing different technologies suitable for carwash wastewater recycling in Ghana’s largest cities; Accra and Kumasi. With the support of a team of experts from South America and Europe, we currently have a functional technology that produces clean water from carwash wastewater. This will enable operators of carwash operators to increase their revenues by weaning them from the public water utility and hence get more value from the water. As water resources become scarce across the globe, such technology will contribute to protecting this vital resource.
Mark Yeboah-Agyepong is the Founder and Centre Director of TriMark Aquaculture Centre (TAC). He graduated from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) with Masters of Philosophy Parasitology (2014), Bachelor of Science Natural Resources Management (2010), and Diploma Natural Resources Management (2003). He began by conducting feasibility studies on nutrient recovery from communal wastewater (black, grey and kitchen spent water sources) for commercial fish production in Ghana since 2010 till date. He worked for Waste Enterprisers, KNUST and International Water Management Institute in different capacities such as Aquaculture Production Manager; Teaching/Research Assistant and Contract Researcher respectively. Mark is presently providing oversight responsibility at TAC to run a pilot business model in recycling wastewater for fish production in Kumasi, Ghana.
In most urban cities, domestic wastewater especially black and greywaters are discharged into the environment untreated. This wastewater ends up contaminating surface waters and underground water sources. Trimark Aquaculture Centre, seeks to solve this problem by recovering nutrients from the wastewater for fish culture and revenue from the fish is ploughed back into the business to address the shortage of funds in the sanitation value chain. The short term plan of TAC is to embark on full-scale commercial production (6,000kg/year) of the fish and after which the business model could be replicated in other potential sites in Ghana and other African countries to sustainably address sanitation.
