Biogas: a bright idea for Africa.(Environews: Innovations)

From: Environmental Health Perspectives | Date: May 1, 2006| Author: Brown, Valerie J. | Copyright information

Ibadan, the second largest city in Nigeria, is the center of a large agricultural region in Oyo State. Since the nineteenth century, fierce intertribal rivalries and other political unrest have pushed large influxes of refugee and military populations into the city. This chaotic growth has discouraged the kind of municipal infrastructure that is taken for granted in the developed world. Soon, however, Ibadan's power needs, at least, will get a boost from a relatively simple but ext...

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