- Tokyo, Japan
Ronald Muana
The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Engineering, Graduate Student
- Environmental Economics, Water resources, Sustainable Water Resources Management, Integrated Water Resources Management, Water Resources engineering, Hydrologic Modeling, and 9 moreNatural Resource and Environmental Economics, Water quality, wastewater reuse, integrated water resources management, water resources pollution, emerging pollutants in water, soil and groundwater, River Basin Management, Water Resources Management and Policy, Environmental Economics, Ecological Economics, Green Economy, Catchment Management, Environmental Valuation (Economics), Biological Nutrient Removal, and Environmental Economics, Ecological Economics, Environmental Managementedit
Research Interests: Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Urbanization in Developing Areas, Biochemical Engineering, Water quality, and 29 moreSustainable Development, Bioenergy, Social Development in developing countries, Catchment Management, Philippines, Developing Countries, Water Treatment, Wastewater Treatment, Ecohydraulics, Program Design & Development, Environmental Sustainability, Public Relations & Social Media, Generative design, Bioremediation of wastewater, ASEAN, Biofuels, Grassroots Movements, River Basin Management, River Restoration, Water quality, wastewater reuse, integrated water resources management, water resources pollution, emerging pollutants in water, soil and groundwater, ASEAN Studies, Delivery of public sector projects through public private partnerships, Philippines' Pasig River, Manila, Bioprocessing, Aquatic Habitat Model, Estero De Paco, Bioproducts, and Biomass Processing
The Metropolis of Manila has poor wastewater management practices which costs the economy around AUD$ 2 Billion per year, results in around a third of all recorded illnesses and has left the rivers biologically dead. However, with a... more
The Metropolis of Manila has poor wastewater management practices which costs the economy around AUD$ 2 Billion per year, results in around a third of all recorded illnesses and has left the rivers biologically dead. However, with a change in wastewater management governance structure in 1997, steady improvements have been realised. Lately, a sewerage system implementation model for river rehabilitation based on a “river basin approach” is being implemented for the first time on a large scale. The implementation is part of a strategy to increase access to sewerage infrastruction, for roughly half of the Manila Metropolis population, from 3% in 1997 to 100% in 2018. The implementation has faced challenges associated with flooding, land availability, above average population growth rates and managing stakeholders. However the bulk of these challenges can be and are being engineered out or managed and the implementation is proceeding.