{"id":218,"date":"2025-11-17T19:50:39","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T19:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maga-aid.org\/?p=218"},"modified":"2026-02-17T20:25:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T20:25:55","slug":"ecological-engineering-filtering-gardens-against-cholera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maga-aid.org\/?p=218","title":{"rendered":"Ecological Engineering: Filtering Gardens Against Cholera"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"559\" src=\"https:\/\/maga-aid.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-6.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maga-aid.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-6.png 1024w, https:\/\/maga-aid.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-6-300x164.png 300w, https:\/\/maga-aid.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-6-768x419.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In Port-au-Prince, greywater management is critical to preventing the spread of cholera. <strong>Green Engineering:<\/strong> Instead of expensive treatment plants, MAGA built dragonfly zones (Phyto-purification).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Operation:<\/strong> Wastewater flows through gravel basins planted with reeds (Typha). Bacteria attached to the plant roots degrade organic matter.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Performance:<\/strong> 95% reduction in pollutant load at the outlet, making the water safe for discharge into the natural environment without health risks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Port-au-Prince, greywater management is critical to preventing the spread of cholera. Green Engineering: Instead of expensive treatment plants, MAGA built dragonfly zones (Phyto-purification).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-missions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maga-aid.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maga-aid.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maga-aid.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maga-aid.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maga-aid.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maga-aid.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220,"href":"https:\/\/maga-aid.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions\/220"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maga-aid.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maga-aid.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maga-aid.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maga-aid.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}