ACN Newswire, 9 Mar 2009
Singapore, Mar 9, 2009 - (ACN Newswire) - Professor Gatze Lettinga from The Netherlands has been awarded this year's Lee Kuan Yew Water Prize for his environmentally-sustainable solution for the treatment of used water using anaerobic technology.
His revolutionary treatment concept, which stood out among 39 international nominations, enables industrial used water to be purified cost-effectively and produces renewable energy, fertilizers and soil conditioners. Professor Lettinga has chosen not to patent this invention so that his water treatment technology can be universally available. As a result, his technology has been widely adopted in industrial as well as municipal use. Today, the technology is in use in almost 3,000 reactors, representing about 80 percent of all anaerobic used water treatment systems in the world.
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