07/09/2026
What if the plants choking Lagos waterways could become part of the solution to the city’s energy and environmental challenges?
D-Olivette and the Lagos State Waterways Authority (LASWA) are exploring how invasive aquatic plants—particularly water hyacinth—can be harvested and converted into clean energy, while helping restore access to waterways across Lagos’ coastal communities.
This is about transforming an environmental burden into a resource: cleaner waterways, renewable energy, improved mobility, new livelihoods, local enterprise and stronger climate resilience. The goal is to ensure invasive aquatic plants become the next most sought-after feedstock for clean energy. Water hyacinth is already a documented challenge for navigation in Lagos, while research has demonstrated its potential for biofuel production, organic fertiliser and other sustainable resources.
With Lagos investing heavily in sustainable waterways and its emerging Blue Economy, this partnership could help connect waste, energy, waterways and livelihoods into one circular system. D-Olivette will provide not just waste to biofuel installations, but digital infrastructure, that turns an unwanted w**d into data, carbon credits and assets.
From blocked waterways to clean energy and improved water transportation. From invasive biomass to opportunity. From environmental challenge to Blue Economy value.
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