Lebanese wastewater solution wins global tech innovation competition

The Global Infrastructure Hub (GI Hub) has crowned Lebanese tech start-up Mrüna the winner of its first global innovation competition, InfraChallenge, following a live pitch against nine other finalists from the UK, US, Sierra Leone, Australia, Mexico, Singapore and Spain.

Mrüna’s winning digital solution tackles the economic and social challenges of wastewater treatment with its decentralised nature-based system, BiomWeb. Using IoT, the solution treats wastewater onsite, negating the need to transport waste and recycled water, with a series of water tanks that imitate aquatic habitats found in nature, without the use of added chemicals, desludging, or vast infrastructure investment. Mrüna believes that BiomWeb will be adopted by refugee camps and informal settlements, as well as private and public sectors across the world.

Mrüna’s solution will help to accelerate the delivery of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 6 that pursues availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all. This is a critical issue because:

● 2.4 billion people lack access to basic sanitation services, such as toilets or latrines;

● more than 80 per cent of wastewater resulting from human activities is discharged into rivers or sea without any pollution removal; and

● nearly 1,000 children die each day due to preventable water and sanitation-related diarrheal diseases.

Related Articles

Related