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Dr. Anita M. Rugaika

Lecturer
Dr. Rugaika specialises in Constructed wetland technology for wastewater treatment, resources recovery from wastewater, environmental management using different technologies, faecal sludge management

Experience & Activities

Dr. Anita M. Rugaika is a lecturer at the School of Materials, Energy, Water and Environmental Sciences (MEWES). She completed her PhD in Chemical Engineering at the KU Leuven, Belgium. She did her MSc. in Environmental Technology and Management at Ardhi University in Dar- es- Salaam, Tanzania and BSc. in Environmental Sciences and Management at Sokoine University of Agriculture in Morogoro, Tanzania. Anita has research interests in wastewater and faecal sludge treatment, technologies, management and resources recovery; use of constructed wetland technology for wastewater treatment, the use of different technologies for environmental management; and water quality assessment.

• Environmental pollution

· Member of the Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD)

  • The use of tracer methods for the measurements of constructed wetlands hydrodynamics (2023-2026).

 

  • Maji na Usafi wa Mazingira

Publications-mention recent 4 and provide relevant links (Click here for her publications; https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Anita-Rugaika/research) 

  • Oscar Njau, Philipp Otter, Revocatus Machunda, Anita Rugaika, Kerstin Wydra and Karoli Njau (2023). Removal of fluoride and pathogens from water using the combined electrocoagulation-inline-electrolytic disinfection process. Water supply Vol. 00 No. 0, 1 doi: 10.2166/ws.2023.146

 

  • Rugaika, A.M, Van Deun, R, Njau, K and Van der Bruggen, B (2019) Phosphorus recovery as calcium phosphate by a pellet reactor pre-treating domestic wastewater before entering a constructed wetland. International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology. DOI 10.1007/s13762-018-02179-1

 

  • Mdachi, D., Rugaika, A., Machunda, R. (2024). The assessment of heavy metals and natural radioactivity in the phosphate tailings at Minjingu mines in Tanzania. Journal of Ecological Engineering.

 

  • Karungamye, P., Rugaika, A., Mtei, K., Machunda, R. (2023) The removal of ciprofloxacin from synthetic wastewater in constructed wetland. HydroResearch 6: 138- 146. DOI org/10.1016/j.hydres.2023.04.001.