Dr Kishor Acharya was awarded a Rapid Response Grant from the Global Challenge Academy to work with the Addis Ababa Water and Sewerage Authority (AAWSA), Addis Ababa University and the International Water Management Institute, in Ethiopia. The project aim is to share best practice for personnel working in the collection, treatment and management of wastewater.

Yifei, Jiangkun and Sanjeeb have successfully published a first outcome of our trinational collaboration with the China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, and the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, on using enzymes to degrade antibiotics in wastewater treatment plant effluent.