Cultural inhibitions, funding hindering innovations in environmental engineering —Prof Coker

Urine harvesting, needle rusher and household composter are innovations in the field of environmental engineering that could be adopted and utilised by the general public today but have been hindered by cultural inhibitions and funding.

Professor Akinwale Coker, a professor of Civil Engineering with specialisation in the field of Environmental Health Engineering, revealed this while delivering the 432nd Inaugural Lecture of the University of Ibadan, Ibadan, last week.

The central theme of the inaugural lecture, titled: “Environmental Health Engineering: Cornerstone of the builders for advancing human well-being,” according to Professor Coker was to emphasise the role of environmental health engineers in enhancing and improving the well-being of man.

Environmental health engineering, a branch of civil engineering, is concerned with engineering methods for improving…