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Champions of the Modern Age
A personal selection of people
who have had a major influence on my work


Gerrit Marais



Professor Gerrit Marais (1927−2005)

Emeritus Professor, University of Cape Town



Major contributions to wastewater engineering:
Sewered aqua-privies in Zambia (i.e., settled sewerage)
Rational design of waste stabilization ponds (application of first-order kinetics to facultative pond design and faecal coliform removal)
Activated sludge, biological nutrient removal
 




David Bradley



Professor David Bradley
Emeritus Professor, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London



Major contributions to international public health and inter- national public health engineering:
Concept of water-washed disease transmission
Environmental classification of water-related communicable diseases (Drawers of Water 1972)






John Kalbermatten


John Kalbermatten (1931−2009)
Formerly Senior Water and Wastes Adviser, The World Bank


Major contribution to environmental engineering:
Low-cost sanitation: application and design philosophy
    Appropriate Sanitation Alternatives 1  2
See pp. 21-23 of this pdf file (published here)

In Memory of John Kalbermatten (Roland Schertenleib, 2009)



Sir Richard Feachem

Professor Sir Richard Feachem, KBE
Global Health Group, University of California, San Francisco

Wikipedia entry
Major contributions to environmental engineering and international public health:
Environmental classification of excreta-related communicable diseases (Sanitation and Disease 1983)
Rural water supplies: design philosophy and health impact
Health impact of low-cost sanitation systems (1 2)
Listen: Fighting the Great Pandemics (Australian National University, 2007)
See: Scaling the heights of global health leadership (The Lancet, 6 November 2010)
PubMed publications listing



Peter Morgan



Dr Peter Morgan, MBE
Aquamor (Private) Ltd, Harare, Zimbabwe

 

Major contributions to low-cost sanitation: 
Development of the VIP latrine, the Arborloo and the Fossa Alterna

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Jose Carlos Melo



José Carlos Melo
Condominium Empreendimentos Ambientais Ltda,

Recife, Brazil

Major contribution to environmental engineering:
Development and application of condominial
water supplies and sewerage
in low-income urban areas







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Tom Curtis



Professor Tom Curtis

University of Newcastle


Major contributions to environmental engineering and wastewater treatment:
Mechanisms of faecal bacterial removal in waste stabilization ponds (1)
Application of molecular and evolutionary microbiology
to wastewater treatment
(2  3)

PubMed publications listing