{"id":8251,"date":"2020-02-24T11:08:51","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T08:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=8251"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:52","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:52","slug":"we-grow-fruits-using-recycled-household-wastewater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/02\/24\/we-grow-fruits-using-recycled-household-wastewater\/","title":{"rendered":"We Grow Fruits Using Recycled Household Wastewater"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As one enters the compound in a fairly arid section of the Karen neighbourhood in Nairobi, its lush green vegetation comes as a surprise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A walkway leads to the main house\u2019s front door, and on the right side of the path sits a luxuriant grass turf dotted with dozens of different types of fruit trees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They range from mangoes, lemons, melons, passion fruit, tree tomatoes, avocados, thorn melons, pomegranates, grapes, pawpaw and bananas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mark Muchiri, the manager at the homestead, says water is not a problem because they recycle what they use in the house and use it to grow the various crops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI started growing the fruits in 2017 after the owner requested me but soon after, I ran into problems because there was no water to water the plants,\u201d says Muchiri of the area that suffers a water crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The solution, however, came in the form of the water used in the household, which they thought of recycling. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/business\/seedsofgold\/Our-fruits-grow-on-recycled-household-wastewater\/2301238-5464062-yh6b57z\/index.html\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As one enters the compound in a fairly arid section of the Karen neighbourhood in Nairobi, its lush green vegetation comes as a surprise. A walkway leads to the main&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8252,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8251","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=8251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}