{"id":7916,"date":"2020-02-04T12:00:10","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T09:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=7916"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:50","slug":"using-green-technology-to-improve-water-quality-in-kenyas-mtwapa-creek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/02\/04\/using-green-technology-to-improve-water-quality-in-kenyas-mtwapa-creek\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Green Technology To Improve Water Quality In Kenya\u2019s Mtwapa Creek"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By UN Environment<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe\nsmell alone when you cross the bridge tells you something\u2019s wrong,\u201d says\nRenison Ruwa, deputy director of the Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research\nInstitute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nbridge in question is Mtwapa bridge, which straddles Mtwapa Creek in Mombasa,\nKenya. And the smell to which Ruwa is referring stems from this very creek,\ninto which waste from the nearby Shimo la Tewa prison\u2014and indeed many other\nplaces\u2014is directly dumped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nprison\u2019s growing population has long overwhelmed the capacity of its septic\nsystem, causing excess raw sewage to be discharged into the creek for many\nyears\u2014dumping which can have grave long-term effects on the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nbeautiful coral reefs of the nearby Mombasa Marine Park are very vulnerable to\nsuch pollution, as are local fish and crabs. Wastewater pollution not only has\nthe potential of disrupting local ecosystems and biodiversity, but also\npotentially tourism revenue. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unenvironment.org\/news-and-stories\/story\/using-green-technology-improve-water-quality-kenyas-mtwapa-creek\">Read\nmore&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By UN Environment \u201cThe smell alone when you cross the bridge tells you something\u2019s wrong,\u201d says Renison Ruwa, deputy director of the Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute. The bridge&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7917,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-environmental-responsibility"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}