On the 9th of December, Chea Eliyan had her one-year follow-up seminar. She presented her research about resource recovery from faecal sludge in Phnom Penh, focusing on the results from the first two studies about faecal sludge characterization and quantification. She preliminary concluded that faecal sludge generation in Phnom Penh is at the increasing trend. The two natural wetlands around the city play a key role as a faecal sludge receiving reservoir before discharging to the rivers. Nutrients and organic matters level in faecal sludge is correlated with the connectedness of containment to the drainage but not by the type of containment. She also included the proposed approaches for her next two studies. The seminar ended with many interesting questions about sanitation challenges in Phnom Penh and the research.
Following the stricter recommendations about Covid-19, there were only four persons in a large room, and around 22 more participated online via Zoom.