What is it about?
This work was carried out in a coffee plantation, the purpose was the domestic wastewater treatment, of worker houses, to avoid pollution of the adjacent river.
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Why is it important?
This type of work was important because a parallel benefit was obtained, on the one hand, it helped to reduce the pollution that is discarded to the river and the other benefit was the cultivation of ornamental plants, which generate an extra income
Perspectives
The future work is to study these systems more, to study who is reducing the contamination of the residual water, is it the complete plant, the root tissue, the leaves or the substrate? Do ornamental plants suffer any alteration when exposed to wastewater? What are the biomolecules that are activated when the plant is exposed to wastewater?
Dr. Angeles A Calixto-Romo
El Colegio de la Frontera Sur
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This page is a summary of: Performance of constructed wetlands with ornamental plants in the treatment of domestic wastewater under the tropical climate of South Mexico, Water Practice & Technology, March 2015, IWA Publishing,
DOI: 10.2166/wpt.2015.013.
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