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Tools and Information
The Constructed Wetlands Knowledge Platform does not only provide related geographic information and data. We would like to supply students, engineers, planners, decision-makers, as well as members of civil society and its organisations with a list of material for individual learning and possibly teaching. Please, find a list of sources ranked from basic to more comprehensive content here:
1. Online Article by Joe Gelt (1997) from the Water Resources Resource Center of the University of Arizona:
Constructed Wetlands: Using Human Ingenuity, Natural Processes to Treat Water, Build Habitat.
2. Compendium of Sanitation Systems and Technologies, 2nd Edition by EAWAG
Includes basic information about Free-Water Surface (FWS), Horizontal Subsurface Flow (HSSF) and Vertical Flow Constructed Wetlands (VFCW):
Available as PDF in English, French, Spanish, Arabic, and Russian.
3. Constructed Wetlands Manual by UN-HABITAT
4. ’Treatment Wetlands’ book by IWA Task Group on Mainstreaming the Use of Treatment Wetlands
5. Online Course on ‘Constructed Wetlands for Wastewater Treatment’ by IHE Delft.
Usually starting once a year.
Course content also available as open courseware.
6. Constructed Wetlands in the context of Nature-based Solutions (NBS):
World Water Development Report (WWDR) 2018.
...and if someone intends to teach primary school students:
Teaching manual by BDZ and UFZ.
7. IWA Specialist Group on Use of Macrophytes in Water Pollution Control (2006):
Constructed Wetlands for Pollution Control
8. US Army Corps of Engineers (2000):
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