CPlantae, a sanitation engineering company from Mexico, has been developing and selling prefabricated worm filters (vermifilters) for on-site wastewater treatment for several years. Building on the lessons from more than 150 installations in Mexico and Latin America, we will soon launch the new Lombrifiltro: an alternative for the 15 million people in Mexico and 440 million people in Latin America who have no sewer connection.
The project
To make the system commercially more attractive to governments and non-profit organisations, this project tests whether the new Lombrifiltro is suitable for an urban setting.
For eight months we install and test two Lombrifiltros at two vulnerable households in San Pablo del Monte, Tlaxcala, Mexico. During the project we develop and apply a method to monitor these installations qualitatively and quantitatively.
Budget
The project has a budget of about € 3,500. CPlantae contributes € 1,000 of this in kind; we are asking Rotary for € 2,500. With this support, Rotary works towards one of its own goals: clean water, sanitation and hygiene.
