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Wastewater itself traditionally has been viewed as something negative. It has been viewed as something that we need to get rid of.

Environmental engineer Kartik Chandran of Columbia University. On September 29th, he was named one of this year's MacArthur Fellows, often referred to as recipients of the Genius Grants.

Where most people see sewage, Chandran sees a resource.

To me, these are not just waste streams.

These are enriched streams.

So these are enriched in nutrients, nitrogen and phosphorus.

These are enriched in carbon, organic carbon.

These are also enriched in energy, organic carbon, these are also

enriched in energy.

And so if we now start to think about these as enriched streams, these now contain resources

that we could extract and recover and use.

Using alternate biological processes, we can convert the carbon present in these waste streams to methane, and methane can be

directly used for energy. We can extract the methane, and we can use it for a co-generation of electricity and

power. There are many utilities in the nation that actually do this. This changes the game when we are

talking about developing or underdeveloped

economies where people just don't have access to sanitation because they don't have access to

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