Constructed Wetlands: An Emerging Paradise for Sustainable Treatment of Wastewater

Authors

  • Sakshi Gupta
  • Deepak Khare

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3759/jowrem.v5i1.519

Abstract

Abstract

Sufficient supply of water both in terms of quantity and quality has always been a provoking effort mostly across all the developing cities of the world. Situation is nowhere different in India too where past decades have seen a rapid growth in not only industries but urbanization as well and availability of water round the country shows a wide disparity of range from about 80 litres per capita per day in Tamil Nadu to 540 litres per capita per day in Chandigarh. This shows the increasing pressure over the available fresh water resources and as an outcome the lack of availability of required amount of water by the consumers and need for alternatives for the recycling and reuse of wastewater after prior treatment increases which will not only curb the extreme pressure of growing demand on the existing sources but will also suffice the requirements of sustainable management of the surrounding environment from unnecessary pollutants and waste both in terms of cost and quality. This current paper discusses about the Constructed Wetlands, a natural wastewater treatment methodology compared to the conventional treatment works where the demands for high energy, capital investment as well as operation-maintenance costs are too high thus restricting the uses in most of the areas especially in a developing country like India where developing and managing conventional plants becomes challenging.

 

Keywords: Constructed Wetland, pollutants, recycling, sustainable management, wastewater

 

Cite this Article

Sakshi Gupta, Deepak Khare. Constructed Wetlands: An Emerging Paradise for Sustainable Treatment of Wastewater. Journal of Water Resource Engineering and Management. 2018; 5(1): 1–5p.

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Published

2018-05-02

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Vol. 5 No. 1 (2018)

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case study

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