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Entrepreneur turns water hyacinth into cooking fuel

Michael Otieno harvesting hyacinth at Lake Victoria, Kisumu. [Collins Oduor, Standard]

A project in Kenya is using biogas technology to tackle two major pollution problems with one device: a machine that converts waste such as invasive water hyacinth into cleaner cooking fuel.

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