High-Level Project Summary
Our project is focused on the bioremediation of contaminated water using organisms Pleurotus ostreatus and Chondracanthus chamissoi. These are two species capable of absorbing colorants from wastewater from the textile industry and metals from wastewater from water sources near mines. We will identify areas where water quality has been reduced over the years. We will focus our project on the regions where water quality has been affected for being close to mines or areas where waste derived from the textile industry is disposed of. We will begin with small-scale studies and finally, we will take this to large-scale in these chosen regions.
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Detailed Project Description
Our project seeks to improve the quality of water using organisms used in biotechnology as Pleurotus ostreatus and Chondracanthus chamissoi. This organisms have the capacity to absorb dyes from fast fashion industries and heavy metals that are a result of the mining activities. The benefits of applying this kind of organisms is that they are able to grow in the highlands, which is one of the regions we would like to apply this project . We felt inspired to work on this project because in our country we can see the inequity we have to access to water in general, especially in the rural areas. We feel confident that applying this technology we can improve the life of this people and their access to water with good quality.
Space Agency Data
GEMStat Water Quality Dashboard
We use this tool because it provides us important information of water quality, for example:
- Phosphorus level
- Nitrogen level
WESR Water
We use filters such a:
- Water quality: Turbidity state
With this tool, we also identified some countries that the turbidity states of their lakes are high.
It means that it can increase the cost of water treatment for drinking and food processing.
So it impacts equity in access to a natural resource.
- Water scarcity
Water scarcity impacts equity in access to a natural resource such as water.
Hackathon Journey
It was a great experience. We learnt how to work in multidisciplinary teams.
References
- Nurcahya E, Darmanto D, Ambariyanto A. Characterization and quality of senil refined carrageenan (SCR) products from different coastal waters based on Fourier transform infrared technique. Journal of Coastal Development. 2012;16(1):25-31. Disponible en: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/5e2d/9c8050b31e25370d8eaa216961f461f08c3f.pdf
- Nurcahya E, Ibrahim R, Suharto S. Morphological Structure Characteristics and Quality of Semi Refined Carrageenan Processed by Different Drying. Procedía Environmental Sciences. 2015;23:116-122. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.proenv.2015.01.018
- Deniz F, Karabulut A. Biosorption of heavy metal ions by chemically modified biomass of coastal seaweed community: Studies on phycoremediation system modeling and design. Ecological Engineering. 2017; 106(1): 101–108. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoleng.2017.05.024
- Ye J, et. al. Bioremediation of heavy metal contaminated aqueous solution by using red algae Porphyra leucosticta. Water Science & Technology. 2015; 72(9): 1662-1666. DOI: 10.2166 / wst.2015.386
- Bahaa S, Al-Baldawi I, Yaseen S, Sheikh S. Biosorption of Heavy Metals from Synthetic Wastewater by Using Macro Algae Collected from Iraqi Marshlands. Journal of Ecological Engineering. 2019; 20(11): 18-22. DOI: https://doi.org/10.12911/22998993/113415
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Global Judging
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