Wastewater treatment using natural systems: The Indian experience

Technologies and Management for Sustainable Biosystems

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 115-130

  Chaturvedi, Manoj K M ^a   Asolekar, Shyam R ^b  

^a Global Scan Technologies   (United Arab Emirates)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

Author keywords

And sewage fed aquaculture; Constructed wetlands; Duckweed ponds; Natural treatment systems; Waste stabilization ponds

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888809385     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

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