Appropriate and sustainable wastewater management in developing countries by the use of constructed wetlands

Proceedings of the 3rd IASTED African Conference on Water Resource Management, AfricaWRM 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 175-180

  Brix, Hans ^a   Koottatep, Thammarat ^b   Fryd, Ole ^c   Laugesen, Carsten H ^d  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b ASIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Thailand)

^c DANISH FOREST LANDSCAPE RES INST   (Denmark)

^d Embassy of Denmark   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Constructed wetlands; Developing countries; Ornamental flowers; Tsunami; Wastewater management

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EFFLUENT TREATMENT; EFFLUENTS; NITROGEN REMOVAL; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; TSUNAMIS; WASTEWATER RECLAMATION; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER POLLUTION;

CONSTRUCTED WETLANDS; ORNAMENTAL FLOWERS; PUMPING STATIONS; REMOVAL OF OIL; TOTAL SUSPENDED SOLIDS; TREATED WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER COLLECTION SYSTEMS; WASTEWATER MANAGEMENT;

WETLANDS;

EID: 84858696328     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2316/p.2010.686-075     Document Type: Conference Paper

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