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“The Dar es Salaam slums are unhealthy habitats” PHOTO/© Nate Sharpe/afrol News
The slums of the Tanzanian capital, Dar es Salaam, are an unhealthy and smelly place due to freely flowing sewage. Now, a researcher has found a low-threshold technology without needing electricity that could clean up the slum.
According to MPhil graduate Nate Sharpe, “pedal power may hold the answer to cheap and efficient sewage removal in some of the world’s poorest slums.” The Cambridge University researcher hopes his low-tech solution now can be taken into large-scale production.
Mr Sharpe says he is planning to take his “People Powered Poo Pump” to the slums of the Tanzanian capital, Dar es Salaam. Roughly 80 percent of Dar es Salaam’s four million residents live in slum conditions.
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