Background & challenges

An experimental project to treat the water of the Maroni River in French Guiana.

Following a meeting with theOffice de l'Eau de Guyane, we realized that our unYo potabilization unit could meet the challenges of a specific site on their territory: a need for access to drinking water in an isolated area that is difficult to reach (4 hours by pirogue), with water containing organic matter.

Following the signing of a partnership agreement between InovaYa, the French Guiana Water Authority, the French Guiana Regional Health Agency, the French Guiana Water Company, the municipality of Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni and the municipality of Grand Santi, we set off on an exploratory mission to understand the local constraints and analyze the quality of the water to be treated.

In order to obtain the desired water quality, it was decided to develop a new version of the unYo, modulated with a nanofiltration technology brick.

In order to verify various qualitative, technical and economic aspects, and to determine whether the device could be deployed in other areas of the territory, the potabilization unit has been installed on the French Guiana Water Authority drinking water production site, where it is currently being tested for 1 year.

Throughout the experiment, the treated water will be analyzed and will not be distributed to users. Eventually, the system will be handed over to the municipality of Grand-Santi.