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Ngila spoke at Scifest Africa earlier this month and delivered a lecture titled ‘Why and how do we manage water quality in South Africa?’ Her current research at the University of Johannesburg focuses on nanotechnology for water treatment and water quality monitoring.
What Profesor Ngila has created with her team are nanoscale filters which have the power to filter and purify water. These filters can be used for large scale production, as well as domestic water purification purposes. This is useful when water resources are scarce and cheaper purification methods are required to ensure domestic scale water quality.
“If my research can contribute towards producing low cost filters, so that we can supply it in the rural areas so that [people] at home can have access to that safe water and they can treat water localised in their small scale filters, then I would have made a difference in the world.”
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Nanotechnology has been used in countries including Australia, Germany and the USA for water filtration processes, however Ngila is spearheading research into filtering technology in South Africa. “Once we have got a breakthrough and we can produce prototypes and they can be upscaled to commercial [filtering] products,” she said.
“We are working towards looking at what is already in the market and see how we can improve the performance of our new product so that they can have a better performance and also customise that for local use for purification in South Africa.
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Although South Africa has been declared one of 30 water stressed countries by the World Health Organisation, drought and poor water quality management is a problem all over the continent, even in her home country, Kenya. “Everyone in Kenya, especially in the city goes and buys bottled water because they can’t trust coming from the taps,” she said, adding that this can have fatal consequences for human health.
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Even though water is a basic human right, safe drinking water is increasingly becoming a scarce resource. “Some people fail their societies, they fail their population, water is not well managed and access to water and safe drinking water is a big problem… as an analytical chemist it is very important for me to make sure I’m developing techniques so that we can be able to monitor the quality of water,” she said.
Professor Jane Ngila received a B.Ed degree in science in 1986 and an MSc in chemistry in 1992 from Kenyatta University in Kenya. She obtained a PhD in chemistry in 1995 from the University of New South Wales, Australia. She is a member of the South African Chemical Institute and the Kenya Chemical Society, and previously belonged to the American Chemical Society, the Royal Society of Chemistry, and the Royal Australian Chemical Institute. She is also a member of the advisory boards for Water South Africa, African Utility Week (Clean Power and Water), the International Conference on Pure and Applied Chemistry, and is the UJ representative in the WaterNet/WARFSA/GWP-SA Committee.
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