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View fullsize Let's feel some soil! # 1: Soil irrigated with our treated water is FLUFFY -- it's healthy! # 2: Soil irrigated by regular water is sticky and you can see algae growth -- that's bad. Presented to you by the most chatty and dedicated date palm care
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View fullsize #mondayblues💙 We were looking back at some old archive! Feels like a different era...! In Kilis, we installed one of our earliest sanitech combo using a LDDT liquid-diverting dry toilet (not just UD urine diverting! ), together with our compostabl
View fullsize Eid Mubarak! Wishing you a blessed Eid with lots of sweets filled with heart-warming dates from the Levant! #cookingwithdates #arabicsweet #datefarming
View fullsize Guess we'll be counting some bugs! #behindthescenes #DateFarming #agritech #watertech #AKYAS
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Fruit productions are crucial for farms. At our partner's date farm, growth of date fruit buds are already showing early signs of vibrant development than the control group: 😃 Bigger greener date fruit buds 😃 Absence of dark de@d buds 😃 Less fibrous stalks that stay fresh for longer time (after being trimmed off) There is some false signs of development in the control group to a layman's eyes: ☹️ The fruit buds seem to be more in number and density, BUT, they are smaller, dryer and appears to be darker and carry a black shade in color - this is actually unhealthy The date palms irritated with Activated Water will be bearing further good news soon! Follow us for more important discoveries! وجد في ثمار تمر النخيل المعالجة من قبلنا: لونها أكثر اخضرار وحجمها اكبر و الجذع أكثر ركوبه و أنعم واليافه أقل. أما ثمار تمر النخيل غير المعالج : بالرغم من ظهور عدد أكبر من الثمار ؛ لكنها أصغر حجما وأغمق لونا وليست في حالة جيدة. #mediterranean #naturelover #waterforlife #الزراعة_المستدامة #الزراعة_المتوسطية
To understand your soil: ✅ Feel them with your hands ✅ Profile your soil with tests ✅ Try your interventions and compare with control groups And you may be surprised by what AKYAS Activated Water can do to your soil! #agritech #watertech #soilhealth #الزراعة_المستدامة #الزراعة_المتوسطية
Every farm began from somewhere. And every inch of growth represents an opportunity for better scientific understanding. Our farm partner irrigates their young date palms differently to see the comparative impact of irrigation using typical water vs our Activated Water. Follow us if you're ready to witness the power of water 🌊 #agritech #mediterranean #الزراعة_المستدامة #الزراعة_المتوسطية
Different farms may combat fungal infections differently. ☹️Using typical irrigation water as a medium for fungal control, such as that from canals with mixed sources (eg WWTP and natural sources), are tested by some farmers to be ineffective, if not harming. ☹️Yet, using water treated by reverse osmosis (RO), or municipality piped water, can be prohibitively expensive. Though, persistent infections leave farmers no other options. 🙂 Good news is, we've been testing different approaches with our farm partners. By using our Activated Water in combination of typical irrigation water - even coming from mixed sources - farmers saw the differences. It's not an overstatement to say, water is indeed the fundamental unit of lives in sustainable agriculture. #mediterraneanagriculture #MENAagri #زراعة_مستدامة
Yes the citrus orchards are being irrigated by our Activated Water! #AgriTech #Watertech #sustainablefarming #naturelover #healthysoil
Can't wait to receive a full comparative report! The Jordan Valley Authority Laboratory professionals came to took soil samples from our farm partner Arar Farms. It might be an understatement to say our Activated Water is doing magic to salty soil - and all without chemicals! Follow us to witness our journey of making BIG transformational impact with small steps! #Soilremediation #soilregeneration #sustainablefarming #AgriTech #watertech
In central Jordan Valley farmlands, we spotted crimson-speckled moths (Utetheisa pulchella) Looks like these beautiful creatures found their homes here in the farms! What features of the farms you see as the perfect habitat for them? #biodiversity #sustainablefarming #nature #mediterranean #habitat
Hear what Dr. Nabil from Arar Date Farm speaks about date pollen! AKYAS Activated Water is used to irrigate the date palms. Part of our study in collaboration with the award-winning Arar Date Farm is to understand the best approaches to improve soil health, and therefore plant health and productivity. Stay tuned for the harvest to see the BIG effect in this season. Follow us for more behind the scenes! Reach out to Arar Date Farm for their high quality dates and pollen (and the magic we did to their date palms!) 😜 #sustainablefarming #AgriTech #agriknowledge #bestpractices
To WASH practitioners and experts -- whether you are deploying wastewater infrastructure projects, or decentralized sanitation treatment solutions for households, camps, emergency response, climate-resilient programmes, water security & water efficient planning etc... -- Here's the BIG question you'd need to ask: What is an EDU and what does it do? In this clip, we explain in visuals. #watertech #regenerative #recycle #reuse #sustainability
Our research partner harvested (partially) mints today! A few groups of mints have been set up in hydroponic systems with water treated by our tech! Each group's water was treated differently with our tech, alongside one control group. Our mint leaves are GIANT! Detailed analysis in progress. More harvests are planned to track growth progress in relation to our water treatment approaches. #hydroponic #watertech #agritech
We've been irrigating a lemon tree farm with our activated water. Farmers told us there have been many more flowers and fruit buds than the control samples! Are you looking forward to the harvest?! #AgriTech #Agtech #watertech #sustainablefarming
Can't wait to see the new baby date palms growing! This fresh new piece of land is being irrigated by our special treated water! #agtech #agritech #waterinnovatiom #behindthescenes
Salty soil stresses plants' roots terribly. Behind the scene #soilrestoration #healthysoil #agritech #agtech #watertech
Behind the scenes of our Zaatari Sanitation System at Oxfam's recycling centre! Check out our final final shelter design from our earlier posts😉 Tons of planning magic went into this! From our iconic shelter (designed by @eahr_com using traditional SuperAdobe techniques) to endless design iterations. Reel breakdown: 1️⃣ Early proposal & project planning vibes with @oxfammena 2️⃣ Finalizing the toilet shelter w/ @eahr_com 3️⃣ Build in action! 4️⃣ Operation: Waste collection ➡️ valuable by-products in a greenhouse at @fao's premise Innovation that impacts! 💧🌍 Who's ready for more? #Zaatari #SanitationInnovation #SustainableDesign #SuperAdobe #climateaction
Let's feel some soil! # 1: Soil irrigated with our treated water is FLUFFY -- it's healthy! # 2: Soil irrigated by regular water is sticky and you can see algae growth -- that's bad. Presented to you by the most chatty and dedicated date palm care
Let's feel some soil! # 1: Soil irrigated with our treated water is FLUFFY -- it's healthy! # 2: Soil irrigated by regular water is sticky and you can see algae growth -- that's bad. Presented to you by the most chatty and dedicated date palm caretaker Mr Fatih 😉 #sustainablefarmimg #soilrestoration #soilremediation #agtech #agritech
That's 6 years ago! 👀 #memorylane Our 2️⃣ retired sani-innovations were featured in this project. Little did we know 1️⃣ of them evolved SO MUCH that it would become a game-changing back-end product in the water & sanitation field today. Experts in #WASH, you must know what that game-changer is, correct? #fieldwork #behindthescenes #innovationinsights
#mondayblues💙 We were looking back at some old archive! Feels like a different era...! In Kilis, we installed one of our earliest sanitech combo using a LDDT liquid-diverting dry toilet (not just UD urine diverting! ), together with our compostabl
#mondayblues💙 We were looking back at some old archive! Feels like a different era...! In Kilis, we installed one of our earliest sanitech combo using a LDDT liquid-diverting dry toilet (not just UD urine diverting! ), together with our compostable bag solution for non-sewered system. (Both products are retired now. But, the LD pan was later transformed into our EDU - Effluent Diversion Unit - a backend liquid-solid separator is compatible with wet sanitation facilities for both sewered and non-sewered! Sounds much more versatile and universal, right?!) Slide 1: installation in progress with pre-fabricated structure Slide 2: project timeline and illustrated installation steps Slide 3: the global sanitation challenge we're tackling (and later the covid challenge we overcame) Slide 4: Milestone 1 Slide 5: Animation: off-grid Turn-key sani-solution in a nutshell Slide 6: Milestone 2 Slide 7: isometric view; comments we received from the field Slide 8: Five lessons learnt Slide 9: Lab report, projected impact; acknowledgement Slide 10: Summary in 3 seconds Interested to see more of our old archive and how we evolved along the way? #startupjourney #innovation #evolution #behindthescenes
Eid Mubarak! Wishing you a blessed Eid with lots of sweets filled with heart-warming dates from the Levant! #cookingwithdates #arabicsweet #datefarming
Eid Mubarak! Wishing you a blessed Eid with lots of sweets filled with heart-warming dates from the Levant! #cookingwithdates #arabicsweet #datefarming
Guess we'll be counting some bugs! #behindthescenes #DateFarming #agritech #watertech #AKYAS
Guess we'll be counting some bugs! #behindthescenes #DateFarming #agritech #watertech #AKYAS
Our ears felt it! 1,000 meter drop in elevation -- from the capital city Amman to Jordan Valley in a 1-hour drive. #behindthescenes #GreatRiftValley #JordanValley #geography #geology
Fruit productions are crucial for farms. At our partner's date farm, growth of date fruit buds are already showing early signs of vibrant development than the control group: 😃 Bigger greener date fruit buds 😃 Absence of dark de@d buds 😃 Less fibro
To understand your soil: ✅ Feel them with your hands ✅ Profile your soil with tests ✅ Try your interventions and compare with control groups And you may be surprised by what AKYAS Activated Water can do to your soil! #agritech #watertech #soilhealt
Every farm began from somewhere. And every inch of growth represents an opportunity for better scientific understanding. Our farm partner irrigates their young date palms differently to see the comparative impact of irrigation using typical water vs
Different farms may combat fungal infections differently. ☹️Using typical irrigation water as a medium for fungal control, such as that from canals with mixed sources (eg WWTP and natural sources), are tested by some farmers to be ineffective, if n
Yes the citrus orchards are being irrigated by our Activated Water! #AgriTech #Watertech #sustainablefarming #naturelover #healthysoil
Can't wait to receive a full comparative report! The Jordan Valley Authority Laboratory professionals came to took soil samples from our farm partner Arar Farms. It might be an understatement to say our Activated Water is doing magic to salty soil -
In central Jordan Valley farmlands, we spotted crimson-speckled moths (Utetheisa pulchella) Looks like these beautiful creatures found their homes here in the farms! What features of the farms you see as the perfect habitat for them? #biodiversity
Hear what Dr. Nabil from Arar Date Farm speaks about date pollen! AKYAS Activated Water is used to irrigate the date palms. Part of our study in collaboration with the award-winning Arar Date Farm is to understand the best approaches to improve soil
To WASH practitioners and experts -- whether you are deploying wastewater infrastructure projects, or decentralized sanitation treatment solutions for households, camps, emergency response, climate-resilient programmes, water security & water eff
Our research partner harvested (partially) mints today! A few groups of mints have been set up in hydroponic systems with water treated by our tech! Each group's water was treated differently with our tech, alongside one control group. Our mint l
We've been irrigating a lemon tree farm with our activated water. Farmers told us there have been many more flowers and fruit buds than the control samples! Are you looking forward to the harvest?! #AgriTech #Agtech #watertech #sustainablefarming
Can't wait to see the new baby date palms growing! This fresh new piece of land is being irrigated by our special treated water! #agtech #agritech #waterinnovatiom #behindthescenes
Salty soil stresses plants' roots terribly. Behind the scene #soilrestoration #healthysoil #agritech #agtech #watertech
Behind the scenes of our Zaatari Sanitation System at Oxfam's recycling centre! Check out our final final shelter design from our earlier posts😉 Tons of planning magic went into this! From our iconic shelter (designed by @eahr_com using traditional
Let's feel some soil! # 1: Soil irrigated with our treated water is FLUFFY -- it's healthy! # 2: Soil irrigated by regular water is sticky and you can see algae growth -- that's bad. Presented to you by the most chatty and dedicated date palm care
That's 6 years ago! 👀 #memorylane Our 2️⃣ retired sani-innovations were featured in this project. Little did we know 1️⃣ of them evolved SO MUCH that it would become a game-changing back-end product in the water & sanitation field today. Expe
#mondayblues💙 We were looking back at some old archive! Feels like a different era...! In Kilis, we installed one of our earliest sanitech combo using a LDDT liquid-diverting dry toilet (not just UD urine diverting! ), together with our compostabl Eid Mubarak! Wishing you a blessed Eid with lots of sweets filled with heart-warming dates from the Levant! #cookingwithdates #arabicsweet #datefarming Guess we'll be counting some bugs! #behindthescenes #DateFarming #agritech #watertech #AKYAS
Our ears felt it! 1,000 meter drop in elevation -- from the capital city Amman to Jordan Valley in a 1-hour drive. #behindthescenes #GreatRiftValley #JordanValley #geography #geology

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News & Links

  • AKYAS collaborated with WaterAid in the field on our sanitation technology - composed of our EDU (liquid-solid separator) and a comprehensive treatment system. This technology combo essentially works well in low-income, unsewered communities who are residing in both high-water table and low-water table environment. Interestingly, the fully system functions in a “twin-pit” set-up, and is complementary to various front-end systems (e.g. SATO I-trap) instead of replacing them! A smart, resourceful system that embraces a win-win-win philosophy!

    Here’s the technology brief by WaterAid.

  • Our cofounder Mandy Mui spoke at a plenary session, expanding Dr. Roshan Shrestha’s presentation on scaling sanitation. , the AKYAS team felt proud to be speaking on stage with renowned sanitation expert Dr Linda Strande, and happy to add on to the already comprehensive responses from the panelists regarding a supportive ecosystem for sanitation to truly scale.

    One point worth highlighting was Mandy’s point that in the recent shrinking of ODA funding globally, the model of social enterprise — resourceful, revenue generating, self-sustaining — should play a more significant role.

    Additionally, we also presented our high-tech cutting edge systems’ preliminary findings in the session for “AI and Technology enhanced wastewater treatment” alongside engineers and scholars from around the world.

    Read further from IWA’s Linkedin Post!

    [2025]

  • This year’s EEHF to us was a unique one. It marked one year of progress in the field.

    We created a series of knowledge sharing posts about EEHF 2025 on Linkedin, not only to share what we have as AKYAS, but to capture the humanitarian WASH sector as a whole.

    Check them out on Linkedin!

    Posts 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5

    [2025]

  • Earlier in February, we participated in the Global South Academic Conclave on WASH and Climate Linkages at CEPT University.


    We had the honour to present our work in India and receive recognition from the CEPT University for our work - we are one of the 5 presenters who received an award for this!

    We are looking forward to starting a new chapter for AKYAS Sanitation in India with the support of new partners we met!

    Stay tuned for more good news!

    See our Linkedin Post here.

  • In February, we had the privilege of attending and presenting at the Toilet Conference in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

    It’s always inspiring to hear Jack Sim speak—his passion for sanitation is truly contagious! A huge shoutout to WaterAid Bangladesh for organizing such a successful and impactful event.

    We had the opportunity to deliver two presentations, engage in insightful discussions, and finally meet in person with partners we’ve been collaborating with virtually for a while.

    For AKYAS Sanitation, the next step is scaling up, and we are setting our sights on Bangladesh. Exciting developments are on the horizon—stay tuned for good news!

    More photos in this Linkedin post!

    [2025]

  • In Dhaka, we exhibited our work at Social Business Youth Summit 2025, curated by YY Venture. As always and as ready as ever, we welcome organisations, private sectors, governmental stakeholders, scholars, to partner up with us in the capacities that fit us all.

    Photos here!

  • How exciting! Under the West Kenya Sanitation Project, AKYAS brought our expertise and latest frugal sanitation product - EDU Effluent Diversion Unit - and further delivered training to masons, vocational training school students and teachers too!

    The team visited various geographies, organisations, and government representatives - and even celebrated the World Toilet Day together in West Kisumu!

    [2024]

  • Our approach to addressing one of the world’s most fundamental topics - sanitation - brought us to 1 of the only 2 spots at the Global Final battle in Get in the Ring last week in The Hague!

    It was an absolute joy of our cofounder Mandy to have met the entrepreneurs who made it to the 3-day event from different corners of the world , and had conversations that are unforgettable.

    Check this out on this post!

    [2024]

  • We are honored to have won the Innovation Award at the UNC Water & Health Conference Innovation Showcase!

    In addition, we have started a series of posts capturing our key learnings from the intensive one-week conference, which brought together insights from WASH practitioners, scholars and many domain experts. Enjoy!

    [2024]

  • Among many esteemed colleagues, implementers and advisors in emergency WASH space, AKYAS has presented our latest innovations and our learning at #EEHF 2024 at Sandec-Eawag, Zurich, Switzerland. One of our learning being the evolution from a typical urine-diverting dry toilet to a “liquids-divertin” toilet pan, and then to a back-end “EDU” Effluent Diversion Unit that overcomes social acceptance challenges.

    Read more here in our #1 post about our top picks from different speakers at EEHF and #2 post about our presentation and feedback from experts!

    [2024]

  • Read more about a market-related diagnosis that was curated by BRAC and have a snapshot of the AKYAS system from the second half of 2023 - before our latest upgrades from the market assessment process!

    Download the report by our partner here.

  • With the support of Aqua for All, AKYAS is implementing our initiative with a market-based sanitation approach. Our partner, BRAC, is supporting the project from Dhaka and Cox’s Bazar.

    [2023]

  • It has been a delight for AKYAS to work with Mutinta N Munkombwe from Cranfield University, UK, on her MSc thesis on households’ willingness to pay for access to safe sanitation services in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. The study was built on the survey by AKYAS.

    We congratulate Mutinta for her amazing analytical work!

    Reach out to us if you’d like to learn more about the study!

    [2023]

  • Download our report “An alternative on-site faecal sludge management solution - Analysis from the piloting of AKYAS, a new container-based sanitation product”

    Read more here

    [2023]

  • At COP28 Get in the Ring Event, AKYAS’ cofounder Mandy Mui stands on stage with three other Water and Sanitation companies to speak about our ventures.

    AKYAS and Nazava Water Filter are the winners of the battles!

    Read more from these Linkedin Posts from and #1 the Unknown Group and #2 interview of Mandy by the Dutch Embassy in UAE.

    [2023]

  • AKYAS is one of the top 10 finalists of the Bayer Social Innovation Award in Water and Sanitation by Bayer Foundation!

    Read more here

    [2022]

  • Co-founders Sophia and Mandy were interviewed by BRAC at the Frugal Innovation Forum 2022. See our thoughts on BRAC’s outreach to local communities, and our innovation approach during Covid in the video clips 1 & 2 here.

    [Oct 2022]

  • “A Sani-entrepreneur’s Perspective: Advances in decentralised sanitation to move the needle on SDG 6.2”

    Read more from here.

    [Apr 2022]

  • Bara, our co-founder, speaks in the podcast by the Global Infrastructure Hub on innovating for decentralised sanitation infrastructure.

    Listen here

    [2021]

  • Co-founder Bara is interviewed on “Not from the Silicon Valley”. Listen to some of the personal stories of Bara’s from before where before “everything” started! Funny, intense, pulling at heartstrings - not for the most faint-hearted!

    Listen to the 1-hour interview here.

    [2021]

  • AKYAS is thrilled to be the winner of the Sarphati Sanitation Challenge. We are proud to be participating the global challenge alongside 10 remarkable enterprises in sanitation, going through the training by Accenture together, and having further progressed into the top 5.

    Grateful to be given a big push to continue on with our innovation and implementation work!

    Read more about the challenge by Aqua for All and Worldwater.net here.

    Watch a short footage of AKYAS on “TV” before the winner announcement (and we had no clue!)

    [2021]

  • The Young Social Entrepreneur organised by the Singapore International Foundation selected AKYAS as one of the winners and will further support AKYAS in our journey of impact.

    Read more here.

    [2021]

  • AKYAS launches in Zaatari Refugee Camp with support from Oxfam in Jordan.

    Read more from the news coverage from the Toilet Board Coalition here!

    [2021]

  • Read more from our Instagram for a series of visual posts!

    [2020]

  • The Expo 2020 Innovation Impact Grant enables AKYAS to continue with our innovation effort in creating solutions to address the sanitation crisis regionally in MENA and globally.

    Grateful to be among global innovators who are on meaningful and impactful journeys.

    Learn more here.

    [2019]