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Water hyacinth project wins varsity students global award

Joseph Nguthiru and Charles Kinyua, students from Egerton University whose project emerged among top global ideas during the World Engineering Day Hackathon virtual event that was held on March, 4, 2022 [Courtesy]

When two Egerton University students got stuck in a motorboat in Lake Naivasha alongside their colleagues during a field trip, little did they know the incident would birth an idea that would earn them global fame.

In June last year, the two, Joseph Nguthiru and Charles Kinyua, and their classmates were stranded for hours when their boat got tangled by water hyacinth, a common occurrence in lakes plagued by the invasive weed.

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