Background & challenges

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

Following a meeting with the Office 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 loaded with organic matter.

Following the signature of a partnership agreement between InovaYa, the Office de l'Eau de Guyane, the ARS de Guyane, the Société Guyanaise des Eaux, the commune of Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni and the commune 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. To obtain the desired water quality, we decided to develop a new version of the unYo, modulated with nanofiltration technology. And, to check various qualitative, technical and economic aspects to determine whether the device could be deployed in other areas of the territory, the potabilization unit was installed on the Société Guyanaise des Eaux drinking water production site, where it is currently being tested for 1 year.

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